American cinema of the 1950s
Subtitle: themes and variations
By: edited by Murray Pomerance.
Contributors: Pomerance, Murray, 1946-
Series: Screen decades
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780813536729; 9780813536736
Subjects: Motion pictures -- United States -- History; Motion pictures -- United States -- Plots, themes, etc
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Movies and landscapes / Mary Beth Haralovich; title: Movies and the new faces of masculinity / Kristen Hatch; title: Movies and the paradox of female stardom / Sumiko Higashi; title: Movies and our secret lives / Rebecca Bell-Metereau; title: Movies and the walls of privacy / Michael DeAngelis; title: Movies and growing up . . . absurd / Jon Lewis; title: Movies and the crack of doom / Barry Keith Grant; title: Movies and the search for proportion / Murray Pomerance; title: Movies and allegories of ambivalence / Adrienne L. McLean; title: Movies and the racial divide / Arthur Knight.