The other fifties : interrogating midcentury American icons /
Foreman, Joel.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press,
c1997.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The frustrated persuader : Fairfax M. Cone and the Edsel advertising campaign, 1957-59 / James L. Baughman -- Postwar white girls' dark other / Wini Breines -- Mau Mau's American career, 1952-57 / Joel Foreman -- The opening of America : meaningful difference in 1950s television / Horace Newcomb -- Watching Elvis : the male rock star as object of the gaze / David R. Shumway -- Memory and repression in early ethnic television : the example of Gertrude Berg and the Goldbergs / Donald Weber -- What Lola got : cultural carelessness on Broadway / David Van Leer -- The prime of Miss Kim Novak : struggling over the feminine in the star image / Jackie Byars -- Split screens : framing and passing in pillow talk / Cynthia J. Fuchs -- Democracy, capitalism, and American literature : the cold war construction of J.D. Salinger's paperback hero / Lee Medovoi -- Something old, something new, something borrowed, something (red, white, and) blue : Ayn Rand's Atlas shrugged and objectivist ideology / Stacey Olster -- The road to rapprochement : Krushchev's 1959 visit to America / Stephen J. Whitfield.
Popular culture
Nineteen fifties.