Transforming the screen, 1950-1959
By: Peter Lev.
Series: History of the American cinema -- v. 7.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780520249660
Subjects: Motion pictures -- United States -- History
Other titles: Fifties.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-345) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The American film industry in the early 1950s; title: Genres and production trends, 1950-1954; title: HUAC, the Blacklist, and the decline of social cinema / Brian Neve; title: Censorship and self regulation; title: Technology and spectacle; title: Hollywood and television in the 1950s: the roots of diversification / Janet Wasko; title: Hollywood international; title: Science fiction films and Cold War anxiety / Victoria O'Donnell; title: The film industry in the late 1950s; title: Genres and production trends, 1955-1959; title: American documentary in the 1950s / Jack C. Ellis; title: "Unquiet years": experimental cinema in the 1950s / Greg S. Fuller.