It came from the 1950s!

By Jones, Darryl

Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Media Studies, Mass media, social aspects, Popular Culture, Film & Video, Intellectual life, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, Motion pictures, Theater, PERFORMING ARTS, Popular culture, united states, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Popular culture, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, SOCIAL SCIENCE, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Social life and customs, Motion pictures, united states, Mass media, History and criticism, American literature, Social conditions, History, History & Criticism, Anxiety

Description: "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"--