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The OTHER FIFTIES: INTERROGATING MIDCENTURY AMERICAN ICONS
Foreman
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Description for The OTHER FIFTIES: INTERROGATING MIDCENTURY AMERICAN ICONS
Paperback. Editor(s): Foreman, Joel. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 522.
From the Edsel to Eisenhower, from Mau Mau to Doris Day, and from Ayn Rand to Elvis, contributors to The Other Fifties topple the decade's already weakened image as a time of unprecedented peace, prosperity, and conformity. Representing the fifties as a period of cultural transformation, contributors reveal the gradual "unmaking" of traditions and value systems that took place as American culture prepared itself for the more easily observed cultural turbulence of the 1960s. Well known contributors demonstrate how television, the novel, the Hollywood movie, the Broadway musical, and rock and roll assaulted midcentury American attitudes toward sexuality, race, gender, ... Read more
From the Edsel to Eisenhower, from Mau Mau to Doris Day, and from Ayn Rand to Elvis, contributors to The Other Fifties topple the decade's already weakened image as a time of unprecedented peace, prosperity, and conformity. Representing the fifties as a period of cultural transformation, contributors reveal the gradual "unmaking" of traditions and value systems that took place as American culture prepared itself for the more easily observed cultural turbulence of the 1960s. Well known contributors demonstrate how television, the novel, the Hollywood movie, the Broadway musical, and rock and roll assaulted midcentury American attitudes toward sexuality, race, gender, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252065743
SKU
V9780252065743
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Ref
99-1
About Foreman
Joel Foreman is an associate professor of English and has a joint appointment in the Program on Social and Organizational Learning at George Mason University.
Reviews for The OTHER FIFTIES: INTERROGATING MIDCENTURY AMERICAN ICONS
"These invigorating and original discussions make it clear: the 1950s are a decade that no one really knows."
George Lipsitz, author of Rainbow at Midnight. "Foreman and his contributors see a time when there were many examples of subversive thoughts and behaviors. [They] look at cracks in mainstream culture, television, film and gender, and literary studies... Thought provoking."
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George Lipsitz, author of Rainbow at Midnight. "Foreman and his contributors see a time when there were many examples of subversive thoughts and behaviors. [They] look at cracks in mainstream culture, television, film and gender, and literary studies... Thought provoking."
... Read more