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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pettey, Homer B., editor.

Series:

Traditions in American cinema.

Traditions in American cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film genres--United States.

Film genres.

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

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

With case studies of the Cold War comedy, the 'rogue cop' film, the brainwashing thriller and the urban romances, Cold War Film Genres explores these myriad productions, redefining American cinematic history with a more inclusive view of the types of films that post-war audiences actually enjoyed, and that the studios provided for them.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Notes on the Contributors

1. Introduction: Cold War Genres and the Rock-and-Roll Film

2. Social Factors in Brainwashing Films of the 1950s and 1960s

3. The Berlin Crisis? Piffl!: Billy Wilder’s Cold War Comedy, One, Two, Three

4. The Small Adult Film: A Prestige Form of Cold War Cinema

5. “I’m Lucky – I Had Rich Parents”: Disability and Class in the Postwar Biopic Genre

6. Rogue Nation, 1954: History, Class Consciousness, and the “Rogue Cop” Film

7. Internal Enmity: Hollywood’s Fragile Home Stories in the 1950s and 1960s

8. Suburban Sublime

9. Domestic Containment for Whom? Gendered and Racial Variations on Cold War Modernity in the Apartment Plot

10. Success and the Single Girl: Urban Romances of Working Women

11. Paris Loves Lovers and Americans Loved Paris: Gender, Class, and Modernity in the Postwar Hollywood Musical

12. Straight to Baby: Scoring Female Jazz Agency and New Masculinity in Henry Mancini’s Peter Gunn

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-1296-3

1-4744-1295-5

OCLC:

1306538134