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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
xx, 639 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Hollywood in the 1950s was a period when the film industry both set conventions and broke norms and traditions—from Cinerama, CinemaScope, and VistaVision to the epic film and lavish musical. It was a decade that saw the rise of the anti-hero; the smoldering, the hidden, and the unspoken; teenagers gone wild in the streets; the sacred and the profane; the revolution of the Method; the socially conscious; the implosion of the studios; the end of...