The Fifties Transforming the Screen

1950-1959

von Peter Lev

382 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Volume 7, written by Peter Lev of Towson University, covers the tumultuous period of the 1950s. The volume explores the divorce of movie studios from their theatre 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, etc.); the rise of television and Hollywoods response in widescreen spectacles (The Robe, The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, etc.) and mature Westerns (High Noon, Shane, The Searchers, etc.); and more.

• ISBN: 9780684804958
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.07.2003
• Größe: 261 x 188 mm
• Verlag: Gale