{"product_id":"the-fifties-7-peter-lev-9780520249660","title":"The Fifties: Transforming the Screen, 1950-1959 Volume 7","description":"Completing the landmark, award-winning, ten-volume series on the first century of American film, \u003ci\u003eThe Fifties\u003c\/i\u003e covers a particularly tumultuous period. Peter Lev explores the divorce of movie studios from their theater chains; the panic of the blacklist era; the explosive emergence of science fiction as the dominant genre (\u003ci\u003eThe Thing, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, War of the Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e); the rise of television and Hollywood's response to the new medium, as seen in widescreen spectacles (\u003ci\u003eThe Robe, The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur) and mature Westerns (High Noon, Shane, The Searchers\u003c\/i\u003e). The richly detailed text elucidates a number of emerging trends as Hollywood, with its familiar stars and genres, reached out as an industry to the newly acknowledged \"teenage\" generation with rock and roll films, and movies as diverse as \u003ci\u003eRebel Without a Cause and Gidget.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lev\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520249666\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520249660\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/06\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.98h x 7.06w x 0.85d","brand":"Peter Lev","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43919945662719,"sku":"9780520249660","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_905b6ec7-67a6-4d3d-ab1a-4ab255c5efa3.jpg?v=1680812781","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-fifties-7-peter-lev-9780520249660","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}