Title: It came from the 1950s!
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"--
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, Popular culture, united states, Mass media, social aspects, Motion pictures, united states, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, PERFORMING ARTS, Film & Video, History & Criticism, Theater, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Popular Culture, Media Studies
Places: United States
Time periods: 1945-, 20th century, 1945-1970