It Came From the 1950s! [electronic resource] : Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties /
Jones, Darryl.author.
McCarthy, Elizabeth.author.
Murphy, Bernice M.author.
An eclectic and insightful collection of essays predicated on the hypothesis that popular cultural documents provide unique insights into the concerns, anxieties and desires of their times. 1950s popular culture is analysed by leading scholars and critics such as Christopher Frayling, Mark Jancovich, Kim Newman and David J. Skal.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes biblliographical references and index.
A-Bombs, B-Pictures and C-Cups / D.J. Skal -- "It's in the trees! It's coming!" : Night of the Demon and the Decline and Fall of the British Empire / D. Jones -- Mutants and Monsters / K. Newman -- "Don't Dare See It Alone!" : The Fifties Hammer Invasion / W. Kinsey -- Genre, Special Effects, and Authorship in the Critical Reception of Science Fiction Film and Television during the 1950s / M. Jancovich & D. Johnston -- Hammer's Dracula / C. Frayling -- Fast Cars and Bullet Bras : The Image of the Female Juvenile Delinquent in 1950s America / E. McCarthy -- A Search for the Father-Image : Masculine Anxiety in Robert Bloch's 1950s Fiction / K. Corstorphine -- "Reading her Difficult Riddle" : Shirley Jackson and late 1950s' Anthropology / D. Downey -- "At My Cooking I Feel It Looking" : Food, Domestic Fantasies, and Consumer Anxiety in Sylvia Plath's Writing / L. Piatti-Farnell -- All that Zombies Allow : Re-Imagining the Fifties in Far From Heaven and Fido / B.M. Murphy -- Filmography.
An eclectic and insightful collection of essays predicated on the hypothesis that popular cultural documents provide unique insights into the concerns, anxieties and desires of their times. 1950s popular culture is analysed by leading scholars and critics such as Christopher Frayling, Mark Jancovich, Kim Newman and David J. Skal.
Cultural studies.
Communication.
Sociology.
Motion pictures-History.
Theater-History.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Cultural Studies.
Media Research.
Film History.
Theatre History.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Media Studies.