American cinema of the 1950s : themes and variations /

American cinema of the 1950s : themes and variations / edited by Murray Pomerance. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2005. - xiv, 287 p. : ill. - Screen decades . - Screen decades. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Movies and landscapes / Mary Beth Haralovich -- Movies and the new faces of masculinity / Kristen Hatch -- Movies and the paradox of female stardom / Sumiko Higashi -- Movies and our secret lives / Rebecca Bell-Metereau -- Movies and the walls of privacy / Michael DeAngelis -- Movies and growing up . . . absurd / Jon Lewis -- Movies and the crack of doom / Barry Keith Grant -- Movies and the search for proportion / Murray Pomerance -- Movies and allegories of ambivalence / Adrienne L. McLean -- Movies and the racial divide / Arthur Knight. Table of contents online: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip057/2005002574.html.

0813536731 (pbk.) 9780813536736 (pbk.)


Motion pictures--History.--United States
Motion pictures--Plots, themes, etc.--United States

PN 1993.5 / A512 2005