It came from the 1950s!
Subtitle: popular culture, popular anxieties
By: edited by Darryl Jones, Elizabeth McCarthy, Bernice M. Murphy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230272217
Subjects: Motion pictures; Social life and customs; Anxiety; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Intellectual life; Popular culture; History and criticism; American literature; Mass media; Social conditions; History; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Description: "It came from the 1950s is an eclectic, witty, 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. The essays explore the emergence of "Hammer Horror" and the company's groundbreaking 1958 adaptation of Dracula; the work of popular authors such as Shirley Jackson and Robert Bloch, and the effect that 50s food advertisements had upon the poetry of Sylvia Plath; the place of special effects in the decade's science fiction films; and 1950s Anglo-American relations as refracted through the prism of the 1957 film Night of the Demon"--
Notes: Includes biblliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A-Bombs, B-Pictures and C-Cups / D.J. Skal; title: "It's in the trees! It's coming!" : Night of the Demon and the Decline and Fall of the British Empire / D. Jones; title: Mutants and Monsters / K. Newman; title: "Don't Dare See It Alone!" : The Fifties Hammer Invasion / W. Kinsey; title: Genre, Special Effects, and Authorship in the Critical Reception of Science Fiction Film and Television during the 1950s / M. Jancovich & D. Johnston; title: Hammer's Dracula / C. Frayling; title: Fast Cars and Bullet Bras : The Image of the Female Juvenile Delinquent in 1950s America / E. McCarthy; title: A Search for the Father-Image : Masculine Anxiety in Robert Bloch's 1950s Fiction / K. Corstorphine; title: "Reading her Difficult Riddle" : Shirley Jackson and late 1950s' Anthropology / D. Downey; title: "At My Cooking I Feel It Looking" : Food, Domestic Fantasies, and Consumer Anxiety in Sylvia Plath's Writing / L. Piatti-Farnell; title: All that Zombies Allow : Re-Imagining the Fifties in Far From Heaven and Fido / B.M. Murphy; title: Filmography.