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Completing the landmark, award-winning ten-volume series on the first century of American film, "History of the American Cinema," Vol. 7, written by Peter Lev of Towson University, covers the tumultuous period of the 1950s. The volume explores the divorce of movie studios from their theatre chains; the panic of the blacklist era; the explosive emergence of science fiction as the dominant genre ("The Thing, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, War of the Worlds," etc.); the rise of television and Hollywood's response in widescreen spectacles ("The Robe, The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur," etc.) and mature Westerns ("High Noon, Shane, The Searchers," etc.); and more.
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..."a very valuable source on this key decade of film history."
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During the early part of the decade, says Lev (electronic media and film, Towson U., Baltimore) American cinema faced challenges from the divorce of production companies from theater chains forced by an anti- trust decision, and the growth of television. He also describes the shift from the studio system of movie production to a system in which a t
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- PublisherCharles Scribner's Sons
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0684804956
- ISBN 13 9780684804958
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages600
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