It came from the 1950s![electronic r...
Jones, Darryl, (1967-)

 

  • It came from the 1950s![electronic resource] :popular culture, popular anxieties /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 302.230973
    Title/Author: It came from the 1950s! : popular culture, popular anxieties // edited by Darryl Jones, Elizabeth McCarthy, Bernice M. Murphy.
    other author: Murphy, Bernice M.
    Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2011.
    Description: 1 online resource.
    Subject: Popular culture - History - 20th century. - United States
    Subject: Mass media - Social aspects - 20th century. - United States
    Subject: Motion pictures - History - 20th century. - United States
    Subject: American literature - History and criticism. - 20th century
    Subject: Anxiety - Social aspects - 20th century. - United States
    Subject: PERFORMING ARTS - Film & Video
    Subject: PERFORMING ARTS - Theater
    Subject: SOCIAL SCIENCE - Popular Culture.
    Subject: SOCIAL SCIENCE - Media Studies.
    Subject: United States - Economic conditions - To 1865.
    ISBN: 9780230337237 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0230337236 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9780230272217 (Cloth)
    ISBN: 0230272215 (Cloth)
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    [NT 15000228]: Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Contributors -- Introduction -- 'A-Bombs, B-Pictures and C-Cups'; D.J. Skal -- 'It's in the trees! It's coming!' Night of the Demon and the Decline and Fall of the British Empire; D. Jones -- Mutants and Monsters; K. Newman -- 'Don't Dare See It Alone!' The Fifties Hammer Invasion; W. Kinsey -- Genre, Special Effects and Authorship in the Critical Reception of Science Fiction Film and Television during the 1950s; M. Jancovich & D. Johnston -- Hammer's Dracula; C. Frayling -- Fast Cars and Bullet Bras: The Image of the Female Juvenile Delinquent in 1950s America; E. McCarthy -- 'A Search for the Father-Image': Masculine Anxiety in Robert Bloch's 1950s Fiction; K. Corstorphine -- 'Reading her Difficult Riddle': Shirley Jackson and late 1950s' Anthropology; D. Downey -- 'At My Cooking I Feel It Looking': Food, Domestic Fantasies and Consumer Anxiety in Sylvia Plath's Writing; L. Piatti-Farnell -- 'All that Zombies Allow' Re-Imagining the Fifties in Far From Heaven and Fido; B.M. Murphy -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index.
    [NT 15000229]: It Came From the 1950s is an eclectic, witty and insightful collection of essays predicated on the hypothesis that popular cultural documents provide unique insights into the concerns, anxieties and desires of their times. The essays�explore�the emergence of 'Hammer Horror' and�the company's groundbreaking 1958 adaptation of Dracula; the work of popular authors such as Shirley Jackson and Robert Bloch, and the effect that 50s food advertisements had upon the poetry of Sylvia Plath; the place of special effects in the decade's science fiction films; and 1950s Anglo-American relations as refracted through the prism of the 1957 film Night of the Demon. There are also essays on radioactive mutants, zombie-human love triangles, far-out girl gangs and mad science at its most nefarious. The collection features contributions from leading scholars and critics such as Christopher Frayling, Mark Jancovich, Kim Newman and David J. Skal.
    Online resource: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230337237
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