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001 2011018687
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008 110517s2011 enk b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aE169.12$b.I8 2011
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084 $aPER004030$aPER011020$aSOC022000$aSOC052000$2bisacsh
245 00 $aIt came from the 1950s! :$bpopular culture, popular anxieties /$cedited by Darryl Jones, Elizabeth McCarthy, Bernice M. Murphy.
260 $aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;$aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2011.
263 $a1112
300 $ap. cm.
520 $a"It came from the 1950s is an eclectic, witty, and insightful collection of essays predicated on the hypothesis that popular cultural documents provide unique insights into the concerns, anxieties, and desires of their times. The essays explore the emergence of "Hammer Horror" and the company's groundbreaking 1958 adaptation of Dracula; the work of popular authors such as Shirley Jackson and Robert Bloch, and the effect that 50s food advertisements had upon the poetry of Sylvia Plath; the place of special effects in the decade's science fiction films; and 1950s Anglo-American relations as refracted through the prism of the 1957 film Night of the Demon"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes biblliographical references and index.
505 0 $aA-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 -- Filmography.
650 0 $aPopular culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aMass media$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y20th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$y1945-1970.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y1945-
650 0 $aMotion pictures$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAnxiety$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 7 $aPERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aPERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies$2bisacsh.
700 1 $aJones, Darryl,$d1967-
700 1 $aMcCarthy, Elizabeth,$d1971-
700 1 $aMurphy, Bernice M.