Though the United States emerged from World War II with superpower status and quickly entered a period of economic prosperity, the stresses and contradictions of the Cold War nevertheless cast a shadow over American life. The same period marked the heyday of the western film. Co…
Stanley Corkin examines the western film, which enjoyed its heyday in the 1950s & 1960s, placing the developing themes exploited in this genre of movie in the political & cultural context of the Cold War.
"This book examines shadow imagery in postwar literature, television, film, photography, and popular culture"--
"This book examines shadow imagery in postwar literature, television, film, photography, and popular culture"--The image of the shadow in midtwentiethcentury America appeared across a variety of genres and media including poetry, pulp fiction, photography, and film. Drawing on a…
"This book examines shadow imagery in postwar literature, television, film, photography, and popular culture."
"This book examines shadow imagery in postwar literature, television, film, photography, and popular culture"
"This book examines shadow imagery in postwar literature, television, film, photography, and popular culture"--
"This book examines shadow imagery in postwar literature, television, film, photography, and popular culture"--
As memories of the Cold War recede, it becomes more and more difficult to remember what it was about and why it evoked such feelings of intensity and fatalism. Fortunately, we have a gold mine of movies and novels to help us recall why an entire generation of Americans grew up d…
"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 entertain…
