Dear Screen-L:





The University of California Press  is pleased to announce the publication of:



The Fifties: Transforming the Screen, 1950-1959



<B>Peter Lev </B>is Professor of Electronic Media and Film at Towson 

University and author of _American Films of the 70s: Conflicting 

Visions. _



http://go.ucpress.edu/Lev





Completing the landmark, award-winning, ten-volume series on the 

first century of American film, _The Fifties_ covers a particularly 

tumultuous period. Peter Lev explores the divorce of movie studios 

from their theater chains; the panic of the blacklist era; the 

explosive emergence of science fiction as the dominant genre (_The 

Thing, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, War of the 

Worlds_); the rise of television and Hollywood's response to the new 

medium, as seen in widescreen spectacles (_The Robe, The Ten 

Commandments, Ben-Hur) and mature Westerns (High Noon, Shane, The 

Searchers_). The richly detailed text elucidates a number of emerging 

trends as Hollywood, with its familiar stars and genres, reached out 

as an industry to the newly acknowledged "teenage" generation with 

rock and roll films, and movies as diverse as _Rebel Without a Cause 

and Gidget._



Full information about the bookis available online: http://go.ucpress.edu/Lev





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Lolita Guevarra

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University of California Press

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