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Movies Of The 50s
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Author : Jürgen Müller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Movies Of The 50s written by Jürgen Müller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Film criticism categories.
Examines the most important films of the 50s.
Movies Of The 50s
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Author : Jürgen Müller
language : en
Publisher: Taschen America Llc
Release Date : 2005
Movies Of The 50s written by Jürgen Müller and has been published by Taschen America Llc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Performing Arts categories.
At a time when people were terrified of UFOs and Communism, the movie industry was busy producing movies that ranged from film noir to suspense to grandiose musicals; apparently the paranoid public in the 1950s wanted family entertainment and dark, brooding pictures in equal doses. The result is a decade's worth of truly monumental cinema, from Hitchcock masterpieces (Vertigo, Psycho, Rear Window) to comedy classics (Tati's Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Billy Wilder's Some Like it Hot) to groundbreaking nouvelle vague films (Godard's Breathless, Truffaut's The Four Hundred Blows) and profound, innovative dramas such as Antonioni's L?Avventura, Fellini's La Strada, John Huston's Misfits, and Kubrick's Paths of Glory. Though censorship kept sex safely off-screen, sexy stars such as James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Marilyn Monroe provided plenty of heat in Rebel Without a Cause, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes respectively. A survey of the most important films of the 1950s
American Cinema Of The 1950s
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Author : Murray Pomerance
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2005
American Cinema Of The 1950s written by Murray Pomerance and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Performing Arts categories.
Bringing together original essays by ten respected scholars in the field, American Cinema of the 1950s explores the impact of the cultural environment of this decade on film, and the impact of film on the American cultural milieu. Contributors examine the signature films of the decade, including From Here to Eternity, Sunset Blvd., Singin' in the Rain, Shane, Rear Window, and Rebel Without a Cause, as well as lesser-known but equally compelling films, such as Dial 1119, Mystery Street, Suddenly, Summer Stock, The Last Hunt, and many others.
Hollywood And The Movies Of The Fifties
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Author : Foster Hirsch
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2023-10-10
Hollywood And The Movies Of The Fifties written by Foster Hirsch and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-10 with Performing Arts categories.
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.
100 Favorite Classic Hollywood Films From The 1930s 40s And 50s
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Author : Gary Koca
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-07-26
100 Favorite Classic Hollywood Films From The 1930s 40s And 50s written by Gary Koca and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-26 with categories.
In two past books that I have written, I focused on Forgotten Stars of the 1930s through the 1950s; that is stars who were pretty big movie stars in their time but that most people today would not be familiar with unless they were fans of classic Hollywood films of that era. I have also written books on great Western stars and on good and bad science fiction movies of the 1950s. In this book, however, I am concentrating on my favorite 100 movies of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. I have focused on American films only, with a few British films included also. (I am not an expert on foreign language films, so there are none in here.) Please note that this means that they are MY favorite films, not the BEST films of those three decades. For example, Citizen Kane (along with Casablanca) are generally regarded as the best two American films of the classic era. However, while I like Citizen Kane, it is just not one of my favorite films, and I'm not really sure why. Perhaps I never thought it really justified its ranking, so I dropped it from my list altogether. The same thing would apply to Vertigo, although I have two other Hitchcock films in the list. I will also admit that I am partial to certain genres of films, in particular the following: -Westerns-Film noir-Monster movies-Horror movies -Mysteries, particular those of Alfred Hitchcock-Swashbucklers-musicals
Film Posters Of The 50s
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Author : Tony Nourmand
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Film Posters Of The 50s written by Tony Nourmand and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Film posters categories.
Good And Bad Sci Fi Horror Movies Of The 1950s
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Author : Gary Koca
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-09-22
Good And Bad Sci Fi Horror Movies Of The 1950s written by Gary Koca and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-22 with categories.
The 1930s and early 1940s are considered by most film historians to be the golden era of black and white horror films, and Universal Studios was the main studio to take advantage of the public's interest in this film genre. Movies such as Frankenstein and its even-better sequel, The Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The Werewolf of London, and my own personal favorite, The Wolfman, with Lon Chaney, Jr. were all terrific films and spawned a bunch of sequels like Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, House of Frankenstein, House of Dracula, and even Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. But by the early 1940s these make-believe monsters were replaced by real ones - Hitler and Nazi Germany as well as the other Axis powers, Italy and Japan. And after World War II ended, the public was interested in different kinds of films - war films, comedies, and movies that dealt with real-life problems like readjustment to civilian life, alcoholism, and life in prison, just to name a few. At the same time, no sooner was World War II brought to a close in August of 1945 after the dropping of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan that an all-out nuclear weapons race commenced between the two newly-emerging superpowers, the United States and Russia. Between 1946 and 1949, the United States conducted six nuclear tests, and the Soviet Union conducted its first test in August of 1949. At the outset, neither the U.S. nor the Soviet Union had many nuclear weapons to spare, but that changed dramatically in the early 1950s. In January of 1951 the United States established a dedicated test site in Nevada and was also using a site in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean for extensive nuclear testing. The Soviet Union began similar testing in Kazakhstan. An atmosphere of fear and suspicion between the two countries led the feeding frenzy to build more powerful and sophisticated bombs, with the result that during the 1950s new hydrogen bomb designs were tested in the Pacific. At the same time, we began to look upward and wonder if we were the only planet in our galaxy or any other solar system that had intelligent life. What if there were life on other planets, beings who were advanced and either saw earth as a place to colonize or were worried about what our gaining sophistication in developing nuclear devices could do to their planets? These thoughts were not lost on Hollywood film makers. As a result, in the early 1950s they began making films that centered on three themes: 1. What effects did these bombs have on unearthing or even creating monsters that were either dormant for millions of years or never even existed? 2. What other planets or solar systems could wreak havoc on earth? 3. What monsters might we find as we explore previously unexplored areas of the earth? This book is a look at some of those films and a few of those stars - some good, some really good, and some just cheesy and god awful. Remember, I am calling this MY list of best and worst science fiction/horror films of the 50s, NOT the best and worst of that era. If you have a movie that you believe should be included in this book, that is certainly understandable. NOTE: I have purposely avoided Japanese monster movies of the 1950s in this book. There are plenty of American and British films to cover without touching the Japanese films, which were occasionally good but most often just awful.
Movie Love In The Fifties
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Author : James Harvey
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2001
Movie Love In The Fifties written by James Harvey and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Performing Arts categories.
From the author of "Romantic Comedy ("brilliant, meticulous, a monumental work of scholarship" --Margo Jefferson, "New York Times), a fresh, illuminating look at the films of the 1950s. Harvey begins by mapping the progression from 1940s film noir to the living-room melodramas of the 1950s. He shows us the femme fatale of the 1940s (Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Bennett) becoming blander and blonder (Doris Day, Debbie Reynolds) and younger and more traditionally sexy (Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly) in the 1950s. And he shows us how women were finally replaced as objects of desire by the new boy-men--Clift, Brando, Dean, and other rebels without causes. Harvey discusses the films of Hitchcock ("Vertigo), Ophuls ("The Reckless Moment), Siodmak ("Christmas Holiday), and Welles ("Touch of Evil, perhaps the single greatest influence on the "post-classical" movies). He writes about the quintessential 1950s directors: Nicholas Ray, who made movies in the old Hollywood tradition "(In a Lonely Place, "Johnny Guitar), and Douglas Sirk, who portrayed suburbia as an emotional deathtrap ("Imitation of Life, "Magnificent Obsession). And he discusses the "serious" directors, such as Stanley Kramer and Elia Kazan, whose films exhibited powerful new realism. Comprehensive, insightful, written with intelligence, humor, and affection, Movie Love in the Fifties is a masterful work of American film, and cultural, history.
Film Posters Of The 50s
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Author : Tony Nourmand
language : en
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Release Date : 2000
Film Posters Of The 50s written by Tony Nourmand and has been published by White Lion Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
For those who formed part of 50s cinema audiences, this book will trigger a host of memories; those too young to remember will find their eyes opened to a time when the movies that today fill up the TV schedules after midnight were stuff of headlines.
Teenagers And Teenpics
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Author : Thomas Doherty
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2010-06-04
Teenagers And Teenpics written by Thomas Doherty and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-04 with History categories.
The classic book on teenagers and their films, thoroughly revised and expanded.