It Came From the 1950s!
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It Came From the 1950s!

Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

It Came From the 1950s!

Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties

About this book

Aneclectic and insightful collection of essays predicated on the hypothesis that popular cultural documents provide unique insights into the concerns, anxieties and desires of their times. 1950s popular cultureisanalysed by leading scholars and critics such as Christopher Frayling, Mark Jancovich, Kim Newman and David J. Skal.

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Yes, you can access It Came From the 1950s! by Darryl Jones,Elizabeth McCarthy,Bernice M. Murphy in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Film History & Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. About the Contributors
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 A-Bombs, B-Pictures, and C-Cups
  11. 2 ‘It’s in the Trees! It’s Coming!’ Night of the Demon and the Decline and Fall of the British Empire
  12. 3 Mutants and Monsters
  13. 4 ‘Don’t Dare See It Alone!’ The Fifties Hammer Invasion
  14. 5 Genre, Special Effects and Authorship in the Critical Reception of Science Fiction Film and Television during the 1950s
  15. 6 Hammer’s Dracula
  16. 7 Fast Cars and Bullet Bras: The Image of the Female Juvenile Delinquent in 1950s America
  17. 8 ‘A Search for the Father-Image’: Masculine Anxiety in Robert Bloch’s 1950s Fiction
  18. 9 ‘Reading her Difficult Riddle’: Shirley Jackson and Late 1950s’ Anthropology
  19. 10 ‘At My Cooking I Feel It Looking’: Food, Domestic Fantasies and Consumer Anxiety in Sylvia Plath’s Writing
  20. 11 ‘All that Zombies Allow’ Re-Imagining the Fifties in Far from Heaven and Fido
  21. Bibliography
  22. Filmography
  23. Index