OTHER FIFTIES Interrogating Midcentury American Icons

Name: OTHER FIFTIES Interrogating Midcentury American Icons
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ISBN: 9780252065743

ISBN-10: 0252065743

ISBN-13: 9780252065743

Edition: 1997

Authors: Joel Foreman

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 3/1/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Introduction




The Frustrated Persuader: Fairfax M. Cone and the Edsel Advertising Campaign, 1957-59




Postwar White Girl's Dark Others




Mau Mau's American Career, 1952-57




The Opening of America: Meaningful Difference in 1950s Television




Watching Elvis: The Male Rock Star as Object of the Gaze




Memory and Repression in Early Ethnic Television: The Example of Gertrude Berg and The Goldbergs




What Lola Got: Cultural Carelessness on Broadway




The Prime of Miss Kim Novak: Struggling Over the Feminine in the Star Image




Split Screens: Framing and Passing in Pillow Talk




Democracy, Capitalism, and American Literature: The Cold War Construction of J. D. Salinger's Paperback Hero




Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something (Red, White, and) Blue: Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and Objectivist Ideology




The Road to Rapprochement: Khrushchev's 1959 Visit to America



Contributors


Index