The Fifties

Transforming the Screen, 1950–1959

Peter Lev

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University of California Press
06 November 2006

Films, movies & cinema; Cinema industry

Series: History of the American Cinema

Completing the landmark, award-winning, ten-volume series on the first century of American film, The Fifties covers a particularly tumultuous period. Peter Lev explores the divorce of movie studios from their theater chains; the panic of the blacklist era; the explosive emergence of science fiction as the dominant genre (The Thing, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, War of the Worlds); the rise of television and Hollywood's response to the new medium, as seen in widescreen spectacles (The Robe, The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur) and mature Westerns (High Noon, Shane, The Searchers). The richly detailed text elucidates a number of emerging trends as Hollywood, with its familiar stars and genres, reached out as an industry to the newly acknowledged ""teenage"" generation with rock and roll films, and movies as diverse as Rebel Without a Cause and Gidget.

By: Peter Lev
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 7
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 816g
ISBN: 9780520249660
ISBN 10: 0520249666
Series: History of the American Cinema
Pages: 396
Publication Date: 06 November 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Lev is Professor of Electronic Media and Film at Towson University and author of American Films of the 70s: Conflicting Visions.