Cold War film genres / edited by Homer B. Pettey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Pettey, Homer B., editor.

Series:

Traditions in American cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film genres--United States.

Film genres.

Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]

Contents:

2 Social Factors in Brainwashing Films of the 1950s and 1960s p. 21 / David Seed

3 The Berlin Crisis? Piffl!: Billy Wilder's Cold War Comedy, One, Two, Three p. 42 / Ed Sikov

4 The Small Adult Film: A Prestige Form of Cold War Cinema p. 62 / R. Barton Palmer

5 "I'm Lucky - I Had Rich Parents": Disability and Class in the Postwar Biopic Genre p. 79 / Martin F. Norden

6 Rogue Nation, 1954: History, Class Consciousness, and the "Rogue Cop" Film p. 99 / Robert Miklitsch

7 Internal Enmity: Hollywood's Fragile Home Stories in the 1950s and 1960s p. 123 / Elisabeth Bronfen

8 Suburban Sublime p. 144 / Homer B. Pettey

9 Domestic Containment for Whom? Gendered and Racial Variations on Cold War Modernity in the Apartment Plot p. 163 / Pamela Robertson Wojcik

10 Success and the Single Girl: Urban Romances of Working Women p. 181 / Jennifer Lei Jenkins

11 Paris Loves Lovers and Americans Loved Paris: Gender, Class, and Modernity in the Postwar Hollywood Musical p. 204 / Steven Cohan

12 Straight to Baby: Scoring Female Jazz Agency and New Masculinity in Henry Mancini's p. 228 / Peter Gunn and Kristin McGee.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781474412940

1474412947

OCLC:

1012750956