Movies of the 50s

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Book
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ISBN 10
076078082X
ISBN 13
9780760780824
Category
Film History
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Publication Year
1999
Publisher
Pages
384
Subject
Motion picture actors and actresses; Motion picture producers and directors; Motion pictures
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Abstract
At a time when people were terrified of UFOs and Communism, the movie industry was busy producing movies that ranged from film noir to suspense to grandiose musicals; apparently the paranoid public in the 1950s wanted family entertainment and dark, brooding pictures in equal doses. The result is a decade's worth of truly monumental cinema, from Hitchcock masterpieces (Vertigo, Psycho, Rear Window) to comedy classics (Tati's Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Billy Wilder's Some Like it Hot) to groundbreaking nouvelle vague films (Godard's Breathless, Truffaut's The Four Hundred Blows) and profound, innovative dramas such as Antonioni's L?Avventura, Fellini's La Strada, John Huston's Misfits, and Kubrick's Paths of Glory. Though censorship kept sex safely off-screen, sexy stars such as James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Marilyn Monroe provided plenty of heat in Rebel Without a Cause, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes respectively. A survey of the most important films of the 1950s.
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This reprint edition is translated from the original German language Taschen edition.
Number of Copies
1
Library | Accession No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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Main | 451 |
791.4309 MUL |
1 | Yes |