
By Peter Lev
Finishing the landmark, award-winning, ten-volume sequence at the first century of yankee movie, The Fifties covers a very tumultuous interval. Peter Lev explores the divorce of motion picture studios from their theater chains; the panic of the blacklist period; the explosive emergence of technology fiction because the dominant style (The factor, The Day the Earth Stood nonetheless, Forbidden Planet, conflict of the Worlds); the increase of tv and Hollywood's reaction to the recent medium, as noticeable in widescreen spectacles (The gown, the 10 Commandments, Ben-Hur) and mature Westerns (High midday, Shane, The Searchers). The richly distinctive textual content elucidates a couple of rising traits as Hollywood, with its well-known stars and genres, reached out as an to the newly said "teenage" iteration with rock and roll motion pictures, and films as assorted as Rebel with no reason and Gidget.