Cold War Film Genres

Homer B. Pettey

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2018

Cold War Film Genres

Homer B. Pettey

In the series Traditions in American Cinema

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474412957

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Examines how Cold War films depicted pertinent issues of American social class and gender

Provides studies of emerging film genres and cycles in the Cold War period
Examines how new genres recast gender and class conditions in terms of defining urban and suburban America
Reveals new directions and successful strategies in Cold War studio production
Charts new developments in film narratives that define American social concerns
Refocuses critical attention upon the diverse politics of American film culture

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 Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Notes on the Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	x
1. Introduction: Cold War Genres and the Rock-and-Roll Film Homer B. Pettey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Social Factors in Brainwashing Films of the 1950s and 1960s David Seed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
3. The Berlin Crisis? Piffl!: Billy Wilder’s Cold War Comedy, One, Two, Three Ed Sikov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
4. The Small Adult Film: A Prestige Form of Cold War Cinema R. Barton Palmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
5. “I’m Lucky – I Had Rich Parents”: Disability and Class in the Postwar Biopic Genre Martin F. Norden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
6. Rogue Nation, 1954: History, Class Consciousness, and the “Rogue Cop” Film Robert Miklitsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
7. Internal Enmity: Hollywood’s Fragile Home Stories in the 1950s and 1960s Elisabeth Bronfen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
8. Suburban Sublime Homer B. Pettey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
9. Domestic Containment for Whom? Gendered and Racial Variations on Cold War Modernity in the Apartment Plot Pamela Robertson Wojcik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
10. Success and the Single Girl: Urban Romances of Working Women Jennifer Lei Jenkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
11. Paris Loves Lovers and Americans Loved Paris: Gender, Class, and Modernity in the Postwar Hollywood Musical Steven Cohan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
12. Straight to Baby: Scoring Female Jazz Agency and New Masculinity in Henry Mancini’s Peter Gunn Kristin McGee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 280
Illustrations
- Other: 22 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474412957