It Came from the 1950s!: Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties

by Darryl Jones

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230272215
• ISBN13: 9780230272217
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"