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Auteur(s) : Kolker, Robert (1940-....)
Titre(s) : Triumph over containment [Texte imprimé] : American film in the 1950s / Robert P. Kolker
Publication : New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Description matérielle : 200 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"The long 1950s, which extend back to the early postwar period and forward into the
early 1960s, were a period of "containment culture" in America, as the media worked
to reinforce traditional family values and suspected communist sympathizers were blacklisted
from the entertainment industry. Yet some brave filmmakers and actors still challenged
the status quo to produce indelible and imaginative work that delivered uncomfortable
truths to Cold War audiences. Triumph Over Containment offers an uncompromising look
at some of the era's greatest films and directors, from household names like Alfred
Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick to lesser-known iconoclasts like Samuel Fuller and Ida
Lupino. Taking in everything from The Thing from Another World (1951) to Dr. Strangelove
or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), acclaimed film scholar
Robert P. Kolker scours a variety of different genres to find pockets of resistance
to the repressive and oppressive norms of Cold War culture. He devotes special attention
to two quintessential 1950s genres-the melodrama and the science fiction film-that
might seem like polar opposites, but each offered pointed responses to containment
culture. This book takes a fresh look at such directors as Nicholas Ray, John Ford,
and Orson Welles, while giving readers a new appreciation for the depth and artistry
of 1950s Hollywood films"
Sujet(s) : Cinéma -- États-Unis -- 1945-....
Guerre froide -- Au cinéma
États-Unis -- Au cinéma
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.430 973 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781978820920. - ISBN 1978820925. - ISBN 9781978820944. - ISBN 1978820941. -
ISBN 9781978820951. - ISBN 197882095X. - ISBN 9781978820968. - ISBN 1978820968
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47055312h
Notice n° :
FRBNF47055312
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Table des matières : On containment, screen size, the lightness and the dark ; "It was like going down
to the bottom of the world" : John Garfield and Enterprise ; "I'm a stranger here
myself" : Nicholas Ray and Ida Lupino ; "Love, hate, action, violence, and death...
In one word : emotion" : Joseph Losey and Samuel Fuller ; "Put an amen to it" : the
old masters ; Looking to the skies : science fiction in the 1950s ; "How can you
say you love me...?" : Melodrama ; Conclusion : "complete total final annihilating
artistic control" : Stanley Kubrick.
