Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Notes on the Contributors x
6. 1. Introduction: Cold War Genres and the Rock-and-Roll Film 1
7. 2. Social Factors in Brainwashing Films of the 1950s and 1960s 21
8. 3. The Berlin Crisis? Piffl!: Billy Wilder’s Cold War Comedy, One, Two, Three 42
9. 4. The Small Adult Film: A Prestige Form of Cold War Cinema 62
10. 5. “I’m Lucky – I Had Rich Parents”: Disability and Class in the Postwar Biopic Genre 79
11. 6. Rogue Nation, 1954: History, Class Consciousness, and the “Rogue Cop” Film 99
12. 7. Internal Enmity: Hollywood’s Fragile Home Stories in the 1950s and 1960s 123
13. 8. Suburban Sublime 144
14. 9. Domestic Containment for Whom? Gendered and Racial Variations on Cold War Modernity in the Apartment Plot 163
15. 10. Success and the Single Girl: Urban Romances of Working Women 181
16. 11. Paris Loves Lovers and Americans Loved Paris: Gender, Class, and Modernity in the Postwar Hollywood Musical 204
17. 12. Straight to Baby: Scoring Female Jazz Agency and New Masculinity in Henry Mancini’s Peter Gunn 228
18. Index 259