Film Scholars, I need to make connections between the late-1940s-1950s rise of the consumerist class, the class of the producers/directors of the musicals/epics/spectaculars of that era, and/or a class explanation for what appears on screen in the 1950s. I am connecting 1950s class to cinema production culture and/or screen events. Can you recommend a book or person to talk to? Was all the musical and spectacular excess of the period an accurate representation of buying power or aspirations for future commodity excess? Yours, Adam Fish UCLA: Anthropology, PhD student Current TV, VC2 Producer ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html