Transforming the Screen 1950-1959 |
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| Author:
| Lev, Peter |
| Series title: | History of the American Cinema Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-684-80495-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2003 |
| Publisher: | Cengage Gale
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| Imprint: | Charles Scribner's Sons |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $223.00 |
Book Description:
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Volume 7, written by Peter Lev of Towson University, covers the tumultuous period of the 1950s. The volume explores the divorce of movie studios from their theatre 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, etc.); the rise of television and Hollywoods response in widescreen spectacles (The Robe, The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, etc.) and mature...
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Volume 7, written by Peter Lev of Towson University, covers the tumultuous period of the 1950s. The volume explores the divorce of movie studios from their theatre 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, etc.); the rise of television and Hollywoods response in widescreen spectacles (The Robe, The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, etc.) and mature Westerns (High Noon, Shane, The Searchers, etc.); and more.