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Author : Douglas T. Miller
Publisher : VNR AG
ISBN 13 : 9780385112482
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (124 download)
Download or read book The Fifties written by Douglas T. Miller and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1977 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the social, cultural, and political history of the United States during the decade of the 1950's.
Author : Christine Geraghty
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415171588
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (715 download)
Download or read book British Cinema in the Fifties written by Christine Geraghty and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores some of the key debates about British cinema and film theory, and examines the curious mix of rebellion and conformity which marked British cinema in the post-war era.
Author : Mary Ellen Sterling
Publisher : Teacher Created Resources
ISBN 13 : 1576900274
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (769 download)
Download or read book The Fifties written by Mary Ellen Sterling and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 1998 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael D. Dwyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199356858
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Back to the Fifties written by Michael D. Dwyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Hollywood studios and record companies churned out films, albums, music videos and promotional materials that sought to recapture, revise, and re-imagine the 1950s. Breaking from dominant wisdom that casts the trend as wholly defined by Ronald Reagan's politics or the rise of postmodernism, Back to the Fifties reveals how Fifties nostalgia from 1973 to 1988 was utilized by a range of audiences for diverse and often competing agendas. Films from American Graffiti to Hairspray and popular music from Sha Na Na to Michael Jackson shaped - and were shaped by - the complex social, political and cultural conditions of the Reagan Era. By closely examining the ways that "the Fifties" was remade and recalled, Back to the Fifties explores how cultural memories were fostered for a generation of teenagers trained by popular culture to rewind, record, recycle and replay.
Author : James R. Gaines
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439101647
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Fifties written by James R. Gaines and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “exciting and enlightening revisionist history” (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that upends the myth of the 1950s as a decade of conformity and celebrates a few solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from historian James R. Gaines. An “enchanting, beautifully written book about heroes and the dark times to which they refused to surrender” (Todd Gitlin, bestselling author of The Sixties). In a series of character portraits, The Fifties invokes the accidental radicals—people motivated not by politics but by their own most intimate conflicts—who sparked movements for change in their time and our own. Among many others, we meet legal pathfinder Pauli Murray, who was tortured by both her mixed-race heritage and her “in between” sexuality. Through years of hard work and self-examination, she turned her demons into historic victories. Ruth Bader Ginsburg credited her for the argument that made sex discrimination unconstitutional, but that was only one of her gifts to the 21st-century feminism. We meet Harry Hay, who dreamed of a national gay rights movement as early as the mid-1940s, a time when the US, Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany viewed gay people as subversives and mentally ill. And in perhaps the book’s unlikeliest pairing, we hear the prophetic voices of Silent Spring’s Rachel Carson and MIT’s preeminent mathematician, Norbert Wiener, who from their very different perspectives—she is in the living world, he in the theoretical one—converged on the then-heretical idea that our mastery over the natural world carried the potential for disaster. Their legacy is the environmental movement. The Fifties is an “inspiration…[and] a reminder of the hard work and personal sacrifice that went into fighting for the constitutional rights of gay people, Blacks, and women, as well as for environmental protection” (The Washington Post). The book carries the powerful message that change begins not in mass movements and new legislation but in the lives of the decentered, often lonely individuals, who learn to fight for change in a daily struggle with themselves.
Author : Andrew J. Dunar
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815631033
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (31 download)
Download or read book America in the Fifties written by Andrew J. Dunar and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1950s evoke images of prosperity, suburbia, a smiling President Eisenhower, cars with elaborate tail fins, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and the “golden age” of television—seemingly a simpler time in which the idealized family life of situation comedies had at least some basis in reality. A closer examination, however,recalls more threatening images: the hysteria of McCarthy-ism, the shadow of the atomic bomb, war in Korea, the Soviet threat manifested in the launch of Sputnik and the bombast of Nikita Khruschchev, and clashes over the integration of public buses in Montgomery, Alabama, and a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. Andrew J. Dunar successfully shows how the issues confronting America in the late twentieth century have roots in the fifties, some apparent at the time, others only in retrospect: civil rights, environmentalism, the counterculture, and “movements” on behalf of women, Chicanos, and Native Americans. The rise of the “Beats,” the continuing development of jazz, the emergence of rock ’n’ roll, and the art of Jackson Pollock reveal the decade to be less conformist than commonly portrayed. While the cold war rivalry with the Soviet Union generated the most concern, Dunar skillfully illustrates how the rise of Nasser in Egypt, Castro in Cuba, and Communist regimes in North Korea, Vietnam, and China signaled new regional challenges to American power.
Author : John Davidson
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857455419
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Framing the Fifties written by John Davidson and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007-07-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The demise of the New German Cinema and the return of popular cinema since the 1990s have led to a renewed interest in the postwar years and the complicated relationship between East and West German cinema in particular. A survey of the 1950s, as offered here for the first time, is therefore long overdue. Moving beyond the contempt for "Papa's Kino" and the nostalgia for the fifties found in much of the existing literature, this anthology explores new uncharted territories, traces hidden connections, discovers unknown treasures, and challenges conventional interpretations. Informed by cultural studies, gender studies, and the study of popular cinema, this anthology offers a more complete account by focusing on popular genres, famous stars, and dominant practices, by taking into account the complicated relationships between East vs. West German, German vs. European, and European vs. American cinemas; and by paying close attention to the economic and political conditions of film production and reception during this little-known period of German film history.
Author : George Gladir
Publisher : Archie Comic Publications
ISBN 13 : 1627388516
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (273 download)
Download or read book Best of the Fifties / Book #1 written by George Gladir and published by Archie Comic Publications. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey back to the days of drive-ins and hula hoops and join Archie and his teenage friends as they frolic through the frantic Fifties!
Author : Michael Olesker
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421411601
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Front Stoops in the Fifties written by Michael Olesker and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olesker's doo-wop portrait of Baltimore is nostalgic, but it has a hard edge.
Author : Enzo George
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502604949
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)
Download or read book America in the Fifties written by Enzo George and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after World War II, America experienced an incredible economic and technological boom as soldiers returned home from abroad. The middle class grew, and technology such as the automobile and television found their way into more and more homes. Explore the Fifties through the eyes of artists, politicians, and ordinary people.
Author : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Publisher : New Africa Press
ISBN 13 : 9987160123
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (871 download)
Download or read book Life in Tanganyika in the Fifties written by Godfrey Mwakikagile and published by New Africa Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in Tanganyika in the 1950s and a look at race relations between whites and black Africans and others in this East African country are some of the subjects covered in the book. It's full of human interest stories, including the author's. Born and brought up in Tanganyika, the author writes from personal experience. He also got the chance to ask many ex-Tanganyikans a number of questions about life in Tanganyika in the fifties. Many of them were born and brought up in Tanganyika during the same period the author was. And many others went to Tanganyika as children but grew up there. The ex-Tanganyikans he contacted lived in different parts of the world including Tahiti, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Italy, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, the United States, the Middle East, and Russia among others. And they all had interesting stories to tell about life in Tanganyika in the fifties. The perspectives they provided, and the memories they shared with the author about their lives in Tanganyika, are some of the most interesting aspects of this book which focuses on one of the most important periods in the history of Africa. The book is a primary source of information on how life was then in Tanganyika during one of the most important decades in the history of the country just before independence.
Author : Foster Hirsch
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307958930
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties written by Foster Hirsch and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at Hollywood’s most turbulent decade and the demise of the studio system—set against the boom of the post–World War II years, the Cold War, and the atomic age—and the movies that reflected the seismic shifts Hollywood in the 1950s was a period when the film industry both set conventions and broke norms and traditions—from Cinerama, CinemaScope, and VistaVision to the epic film and lavish musical. It was a decade that saw the rise of the anti-hero; the smoldering, the hidden, and the unspoken; teenagers gone wild in the streets; the sacred and the profane; the revolution of the Method; the socially conscious; the implosion of the studios; the end of the production code; and the invasion of the ultimate body snatcher: the “small screen” television. Here is Eisenhower’s America—seemingly complacent, conformity-ridden revealed in Vincente Minnelli’s Father of the Bride, Walt Disney’s Cinderella, and Brigadoon, among others. And here is its darkening, resonant landscape, beset by conflict, discontent, and anxiety (The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Asphalt Jungle, A Place in the Sun, Touch of Evil, It Came From Outer Space) . . . an America on the verge of cultural, political and sexual revolt, busting up and breaking out (East of Eden, From Here to Eternity, On the Waterfront, Sweet Smell of Success, The Wild One, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Jailhouse Rock). An important, riveting look at our nation at its peak as a world power and at the political, cultural, sexual upheavals it endured, reflected and explored in the quintessential American art form.
Author : Charles Beneulyn Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Illinois in the Fifties written by Charles Beneulyn Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Council Collection
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Fifties written by British Council Collection and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany exhibition organised by the British Council 1998.
Author : Warren G. French
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Fifties: Fiction, Poetry, Drama written by Warren G. French and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays (see contents screen) about American literature of the 1950's, including Salinger, Hemingway, Faulkner, Mailer, Bellow, Jack Kerouac, and Tennessee Williams. Includes biographical sketches of the writers and the contributors.
Author : Jurgen Schadeberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Fifties People of South Africa written by Jurgen Schadeberg and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John McLaughlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book John McLaughlin, Paintings of the Fifties written by John McLaughlin and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
