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Cold War Film Genres
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English
Published/Copyright:
2018
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From the mid-1940s to the late 1980s American film studios enjoyed commercial success in a range of often overlooked genres, employing a new realism to depict social class structures, capitalist desires and the expansion of the marketplace, and to turn American cultural values comically and subversively against themselves. With case studies of the Cold War comedy, the ‘rogue cop’ film, the brainwashing thriller and the urban romances that defined the ‘new woman’, Cold War Film Genres explores these myriad productions, redefining American cinematic history with a more inclusive view of the types of films that post-war audiences actually enjoyed, and that the studios provided for them.
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
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Notes on the Contributors
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1. Introduction: Cold War Genres and the Rock-and-Roll Film
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2. Social Factors in Brainwashing Films of the 1950s and 1960s
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3. The Berlin Crisis? Piffl!: Billy Wilder’s Cold War Comedy, One, Two, Three
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4. The Small Adult Film: A Prestige Form of Cold War Cinema
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5. “I’m Lucky – I Had Rich Parents”: Disability and Class in the Postwar Biopic Genre
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6. Rogue Nation, 1954: History, Class Consciousness, and the “Rogue Cop” Film
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7. Internal Enmity: Hollywood’s Fragile Home Stories in the 1950s and 1960s
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8. Suburban Sublime
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9. Domestic Containment for Whom? Gendered and Racial Variations on Cold War Modernity in the Apartment Plot
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10. Success and the Single Girl: Urban Romances of Working Women
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11. Paris Loves Lovers and Americans Loved Paris: Gender, Class, and Modernity in the Postwar Hollywood Musical
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12. Straight to Baby: Scoring Female Jazz Agency and New Masculinity in Henry Mancini’s Peter Gunn
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Index
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