NEW BOOK: The Fifties
Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:08:19 -0700
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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