Triumph Over Containment: American Film in the 1950s

by Robert P. Kolker

The long 1950s, which extend back to the early postwar period and forward into the early 1960s, were a period of "containment culture" in America, as the media worked to reinforce traditional family values and suspected communist sympathizers were blacklisted from the entertainment industry. Yet some brave filmmakers and actors still challenged the status quo to produce indelible and imaginative work that delivered uncomfortable truths to Cold War...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978820925
• ISBN13: 9781978820920
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher