Author: Erik Mortenson
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 080933433X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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The image of the shadow in mid-twentieth-century America appeared across a variety of genres and media including poetry, pulp fiction, photography, and film. Drawing on an extensive framework that ranges from Cold War cultural histories to theorizations of psychoanalysis and the Gothic, Erik Mortenson argues that shadow imagery in 1950s and 1960s American culture not only reflected the anxiety and ambiguity of the times but also offered an imaginative space for artists to challenge the binary rhetoric associated with the Cold War. After contextualizing the postwar use of shadow imagery in the wake of the atomic bomb, Ambiguous Borderlands looks at shadows in print works, detailing the reemergence of the pulp fiction crime fighter the Shadow in the late-1950s writings of Sylvia Plath, Amiri Baraka, and Jack Kerouac. Using Freudian and Jungian conceptions of the unconscious, Mortenson then discusses Kerouac’s and Allen Ginsberg’s shared dream of a “shrouded stranger” and how it shaped their Beat aesthetic. Turning to the visual, Mortenson examines the dehumanizing effect of shadow imagery in the Cold War photography of Robert Frank, William Klein, and Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Mortenson concludes with an investigation of the use of chiaroscuro in 1950s film noir and the popular television series The Twilight Zone, further detailing how the complexities of Cold War society were mirrored across these media in the ubiquitous imagery of light and dark. From comics to movies, Beats to bombs, Ambiguous Borderlands provides a novel understanding of the Cold War cultural context through its analysis of the image of the shadow in midcentury media. Its interdisciplinary approach, ambitious subject matter, and diverse theoretical framing make it essential reading for anyone interested in American literary and popular culture during the fifties and sixties.
Author: Graham Cassano
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004276963
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
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In 1936, director John Ford claimed to be making movies for “a new kind of public” that wanted more honest pictures. Graham Cassano’s A New Kind of Public: Community, solidarity, and political economy in New Deal cinema, 1935-1948 argues that this new kind of public was forged in the fires of class struggle and economic calamity. Those struggles appeared in Hollywood productions, as the movies themselves tried to explain the causes and consequence of the Great Depression. Using the tools of critical Marxism and cultural theory, Cassano surveys Hollywood’s political economic explanations and finds a field of symbolic struggle in which radical visions of solidarity and conflict competed with the dominant class ideology for the loyalty of this new audience.
Author: Marilyn Ann Moss
Publisher: Terrace Books
ISBN: 0299204332
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Marilyn Ann Moss’s Giant examines the life of one of the most influential directors to work in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1960s. George Stevens directed such popular and significant films as Shane, Giant, A Place in the Sun, and The Diary of Anne Frank. He was the first to pair Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy on film in Woman of the Year. Through the study of Stevens’s life and his production history, Moss also presents a glimpse of the workings of the classic Hollywood studio system in its glory days. Moss documents Stevens’s role as a powerful director who often had to battle the heads of major studios to get his films made his way. She traces the four decades Stevens was a major Hollywood player and icon, from his earliest days at the Hal Roach Studios—where he learned to be a cameraman, writer, and director for Laurel and Hardy features—up to when his films made millions at the box office and were graced by actors such as Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Alan Ladd, and Montgomery Clift.
Author: Elizabeth Kendall
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
ISBN: 1461661250
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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In the 1934 classic It Happened One Night, heiress Claudette Colbert races away from the altar and a conventional marriage and throws herself into a wisecracking rough-and-tumble affair with Clark Gable. The new brand of movies following in the wake of Capra's kooky masterpiece-and the women starring in them-are the focus of Kendall's The Runaway Bride, a look at the films that mirrored the climate of the Great Depression while at the same time helping Americans get through it. Kendall details the collaborations between the romantic comedy directors and the female stars, showing how such films as Alice Adams (with Katherine Hepburn), Swing Time (where Ginger Rogers enjoys "A Fine Romance" with Fred Astaire), The Awful Truth (with Irene Dunne), and The Lady Eve (wherein Barbara Stanwyck's shapely leg repeatedly trips naïve millionaire Henry Fonda) came to be, and what they said about the 1930s. Written with erudition and enthusiasm, The Runaway Bride is a trip through some of Hollywood's most memorable moments, and a key to the national issues of an era as revealed in its films.
Author: Tim C. Stadler
Publisher: Tim C. Stadler
ISBN: 0692205780
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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This book was over four years in the writing. It is a comprehensive history of the Yost family line. From the Yost name originating in Southern Germany in the 12th Century to the first Yost's to come to America including Hans Casper Yost and his brothers and sisters. The book is 564 pages. It contains Census, Land Grants, War Records, and family photos tracing the Yost family as they spread across America. The book also contains information and proof of famous Yost's including John Yost who made a rifle for President George Washington in March 1770 for 6 and 10 Shillings. Fielding "Hurry Up" Yost famous for the "Points a minute" football team. It contains numerous family names as the Yost's men and women married, Ammon, Anderson, Alexander, Balmer, Beecher, Best, Bickle, Boggs, Blake, Bonham, Bourne, Boyd, Brizendine, Buchanan, Buno, Burns, Carnes, Carlsen, Carter, Chambers, Chavez, Cheney, Chitwood, Clover, Cluck, Cook, Cooper, Cummins, Dahl, Daughtery, DeMers, Dial, Diggins, Dunn, Eagon, Early, Edgman, Emils, Estes, Faubion, Fletcher, Francis, Franklin, Frame, Fudge, Gardner, Gill, Goodner, Goodpasture, Gose, Gregg, Greiner, Grossclose, Groseclose, Hack, Haff, HaHa, Hamilton, Harrison, Hendrix, Herring, Hobbs, Hodge, Holodinski, Hopkins, Horne, Hostetter, Jackson, James, Jones, Jonson, Johnson, Jones, Josselet, Keller, Kennedy, Kern, Kidd, Knox, Kokendoffer, Kraft, Lancaster, Lewis, Louthan, Maretta, Marshall, Martin, McBride, McConnell, McCormick, McDonald, McGrady, McGregor, McNally, McLean, Messman, Mitchem, Mobley, Monroe, Moore, Morris, Moseley, Moerschel, Murry, Nance, Norcross, Nuckles, Nutz, Owens, Palum, Paul, Poe, Prine, Proctor, Qualls, Raynes, Reed, Richards, Rister, Roberts, Romkey, Rowell, Rush, Saint, Schureman, Schroeder, Schwartz, Scott, Shawver, Sheffer, Shilling, Shipman, Shrader, Sibley, Skinner, Smith, Spencer, Stadler, Stewart, Stoots, Stratton, Stump, Swanwich, Sutton, Talor, Terrel, Townsend, Turner, Valenzuela, Waggoner, Warden, Warren, White, Whitman, Wilbanks, Willard, Winchester, Woland, Womble, Woodward, Yarmuk, Wygal, Zagarola, Zimmerman. And there are others. If you have a Yost in your family line, you will want this book.
Author: Maureen Turim
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317916670
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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The flashback is a crucial moment in a film narrative, one that captures the cinematic expression of memory, and history. This author’s wide-ranging account of this single device reveals it to be an important way of creating cinematic meaning. Taking as her subject all of film history, the author traces out the history of the flashback, illuminating that history through structuralist narrative theory, psychoanalytic theories of subjectivity, and theories of ideology. From the American silent film era and the European and Japanese avant-garde of the twenties, from film noir and the psychological melodrama of the forties and fifties to 1980s art and Third World cinema, the flashback has interrogated time and memory, making it a nexus for ideology, representations of the psyche, and shifting cultural attitudes.
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