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Lost in the Fifties: Recovering Phantom Hollywood
Wheeler Winston Dixon
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Paperback. Examines the lost films and directors of the 1950s. Contrasting traditional themes of love, marriage, and family, the author's 1950s film world unveils once-taboo issues of rape, prostitution, and gangs. Television shows such as "Captain Midnight" and "Ramar of the Jungle" are juxtaposed with the cheerful world of "I Love Lucy" and "Howdy Doody". Num Pages: 224 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 349.
Exposes the seedier side of American life in films of the 1950s. ""Lost in the Fifties: Recovering Phantom Hollywood"" reveals two 1950s: an era glorified in Hollywood movies and a darker reality reflected in the esoteric films of the decade. Renowned film scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon turns to the margins - the television shows and films of a hidden Hollywood - to offer an authentic view of the 1950s that counters the Tinseltown version. Dixon examines the lost films and directors of the decade. Contrasting traditional themes of love, marriage, and family, Dixon's 1950s film world unveils once-taboo issues of ... Read more
Exposes the seedier side of American life in films of the 1950s. ""Lost in the Fifties: Recovering Phantom Hollywood"" reveals two 1950s: an era glorified in Hollywood movies and a darker reality reflected in the esoteric films of the decade. Renowned film scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon turns to the margins - the television shows and films of a hidden Hollywood - to offer an authentic view of the 1950s that counters the Tinseltown version. Dixon examines the lost films and directors of the decade. Contrasting traditional themes of love, marriage, and family, Dixon's 1950s film world unveils once-taboo issues of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809326549
SKU
V9780809326549
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About Wheeler Winston Dixon
The James Ryan Endowed Professor of Film Studies, Wheeler Winston Dixon is a filmmaker and professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. The author and editor of twenty-two books, Dixon is also the coeditor-in-chief of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He was honored in 2003 with a retrospective of his films at the Museum of Modern ... Read more
Reviews for Lost in the Fifties: Recovering Phantom Hollywood
Lost in the Fifties radically changes and expands our understanding of the decade: both by restoring many forgotten works and artifacts of the period to visibility, and by using those newly illuminated works to rethink the significance of the decade in both cinematic and broader cultural history. - Steven Shaviro, author of Connected, or What It Means to Live in ... Read more