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 -- Lolita Guevarra Electronic Marketing Coordinator University of California Press Tel. 510.643.4738 | Fax 510.643.7127 [log in to unmask] ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html