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    It came from the 1950s! : popular culture, popular anxieties / edited by Darryl Jones, Elizabeth McCarthy, and Bernice M. Murphy.
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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  • Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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  • Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
  •  
  • Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
  •  
  • American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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  • Anxiety -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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  • United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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  • United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970.
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  • United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
  • ISBN: 
    9780230272217 (hardback) :
    0230272215 (hardback)
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    xiv, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
    Contents: 
    A-bombs, B-pictures and C-cups / David J. Skal -- 'It's in the trees! It's coming!': Night of the Demon and the decline and fall of the British Empire / Darryl Jones -- Mutants and monsters / Kim Newman -- 'Don't dare see it alone!': The fifties Hammer invasion / Wayne Kinsey -- Genre, special effects, and authorship in the critical reception of science fiction film and television during the 1950s / Mark Jancovich and Derek Johnston -- Hammer's Dracula / Christopher Frayling -- Fast cars and bullet bras: the image of the female juvenile delinquent in 1950s America / Elizabeth McCarthy -- 'A search for the father-image': masculine anxiety in Robert Bloch's 1950s fiction / Kevin Corstorphine -- 'Reading her difficult riddle': Shirley Jackson and late 1950s' anthropology / Dara Downey -- 'At my cooking I feel it looking': food, domestic fantasies, and consumer anxiety in Sylvia Plath's writing / Lorna Piatti-Farnell -- 'All that zombies allow': re-imagining the fifties in Far from Heaven and Fido / Bernice M. Murphy -- Filmography.
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    "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."--Provided by publisher.
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