Demographic Angst. Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s, Paperback - Alan Nadel

Argues that mandated normativity - as a political agenda and a social ethic - precluded explicit expression of the anxiety produced by America's ra...

Before Bunny Yeager was old enough to be one, she fantasized about becoming a Pin-Up girl. She realized her dream and much more. After building a s...

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Joy ShihIllustration(s): over 250 color photosNumber of pages: 112Publication date: 1997Dimensions: 21...

Reducere. DEATH COMES LASTTaken together, Death Comes Last and the expanded Redheads Die Quickly contain all of Brewer's short fiction published between 1951...

The 1950s was a golden age for cinematic sci-fi, offering up dozens of films of varying degrees of interest, competence, and entertainment. Some of...

DescriptionAfter the end of the Second World War, Bulgaria fell in total dependency upon the Soviet Union as a direct result of the 1944 Yalta agre...

Favourite cars of the 1950s are lavishly illustrated in this little books, with a lively text. They include models from Morris, Austin, Ford, MG, J...

Reducere. Love cryptograms? Interested in the 1950s? Take a step back in time with this collection of over 400 cryptogroups and cryptoquotes all with a 1950s...

Phil Carradice's account of growing up in Pembrokeshire after the Second World War ended.Publisher: Amberley PublishingAuthor(s): Phil CarradiceIll...

More than a footnote to the Second World War, or a foreword to the youth-obsessed exhilaration of the Sixties, the Fifties was a thrilling decade d...

Reducere. Hoosier hysteria is synonymous with Indiana's crazy love affair with basketball. For some, it harkens back to the final four teams that met as a re...

Scoring the Hollywood Actor in the 1950s theorises the connections between film acting and film music using the films of the 1950s as case studies....

Reducere. First-person account of the famous New York City Cedar Bar in the 1950s when it was regularly visited by what came to be known as the "greatest gen...

Reducere. Take a step back in time with this collection of 60 word search puzzles, all with a 1950s theme. What movies were made in the 1950s? What music was...

Reducere. DescriptionThe 1930s and early 1940s are considered by most film historians to be the golden era of black and white horror films, and Universal Stu...

Copenhagen Street was no different from any street in any industrial town or city in the 1950s. Not only were the streets similar, their inhabitant...

Description The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever, and with them comes a sense of uncertainty with respect to liberal dem...

For almost three decades, Georgia Tann was nationally lauded for her work at her children's home. In reality she was selling many of her charges - ...

Reducere. There must be something in our souls that cries out to explain to the world not only who we are but also how it was we got to be the person our fri...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Peter TurchinWE ARE ON THE WRONG TRACK Seventy percent of Americans (and counting) think so. The real wage of a US worker t...

Reducere. DescriptionA New York Times bestseller, this is the "outstanding" (The Atlantic), insightful, and authoritative account of Dwight Eisenhower's pres...

Reducere. In 1950 Las Vegas saw a million tourists. In 1960 it attracted ten million. The city entered the fifties as a regional destination where prosperous...

"A book that examines the growing population of mixed minority-white backgrounds and society"--Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Rich...

Reducere. This diverse neighborhood in the shadow of LaGuardia Airport was once called "Manhattan's Bedroom." Famous comedians, actors, physicians, scientist...

Focusing on the influence of Maoist ideology and masculinist power on the representations of women in revolutionary opera films made during the Cul...

Reducere. DescriptionThe 1950's was a turning point for the nation and Utica, NY. It was the best of worlds for many, and a troubled time for others. Lucky U...

Reducere. Beyond the idyllic countryside and suburban communities of Long Island lies a murky history of murder and mayhem. A Victorian romance went awry in ...

A new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to the Reconstruction curated by the Schomburg Center, that makes the case for focusing on th...

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): Connie MonkNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescop...

More than 28, 000 innocent people murdered, homes reduced to rubble. Time to escape from bombed-out London to a land of greenery and opportunity, b...

A nostalgic look at what it was like to be a housewife in the 1950sBeing a housewife in the 1950s was quite different than today. Women were expect...

*First history of Black artists & black art in Britain *Black british artists like Ofili & McQueen are very popular and highly respected. *Students...

Narratives based on conspiratorial and paranoid thinking have become increasingly prominent throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Fr...

A personal account of science fiction in the 1950s and why, for the author as well as many others, the decade marked the golden age of the genre.

Reducere. This anthology collects the ten winners of the 2020 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at UNT's Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conferen...

"A book that examines the growing population of mixed minority-white backgrounds and society"--Illustrations: 15 b/w illus. 7 tables.

From D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation in 1915 to the recent Get Out, audiences and critics alike have responded to racism in motion pictures for m...

Publisher: Fantom Films LimitedAuthor(s): Alan StaffordPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera ...

The New York Times and Washington Post bestseller that sparked a national conversation about America's new progressive, multiracial majority, updat...

Reducere. Description Religious academies had strict rules concerning social activities, so sometimes this caused a problem for some of us "good kids" who wa...

* A wonderful, heart-warming account of a bygone way of life in rural England in the 1950s

In a new edition of this popular guidebook, filmmakers Alan Rosenthal and Ned Eckhardt show readers how to utilize the latest innovations in equipm...

Reducere. Artists and filmmakers in the early twentieth century reshaped our vision of the American West. In particular, the Taos Society of Artists and the ...

Interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution that reject meme theory in favor of a complex understanding of dynamic change over time How do...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Since the late 1950s Stan Brakhage has been in the forefront of independent filmmaking. His body of work - some seventy hours - is one of the large...

Smoke in the Lanes is the fascinating firsthand account of a bygone age of the Romani traveller way of life in 1950s England.

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Denise Von GlahnNumber of pages: 384Collection: Music in American LifePublication date: 2021Dimen...

Publisher: Portage & Main PressAuthor(s): Sara Florence DavidsonIllustration(s): 3 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 224Collection: The Footbrid...