TY - BOOK AU - Pettey,Homer B. AU - Bronfen,Elisabeth AU - Cohan,Steven AU - Jenkins,Jennifer Lei AU - McGee,Kristin AU - Miklitsch,Robert AU - Norden,Martin F. AU - Palmer,R.Barton AU - Pettey,Homer B. AU - Robertson Wojcik,Pamela AU - Seed,David AU - Sikov,Ed TI - Cold War Film Genres T2 - Traditions in American Cinema : TAC SN - 9781474412940 AV - PN1993.5.U6 C624 2018 U1 - 791.430973 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - Film genres KW - United States KW - Motion pictures KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Film, Media & Cultural Studies KW - HISTORY / North America KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Notes on the Contributors --; 1. Introduction: Cold War Genres and the Rock-and-Roll Film --; 2. Social Factors in Brainwashing Films of the 1950s and 1960s --; 3. The Berlin Crisis? Piffl!: Billy Wilder’s Cold War Comedy, One, Two, Three --; 4. The Small Adult Film: A Prestige Form of Cold War Cinema --; 5. “I’m Lucky – I Had Rich Parents”: Disability and Class in the Postwar Biopic Genre --; 6. Rogue Nation, 1954: History, Class Consciousness, and the “Rogue Cop” Film --; 7. Internal Enmity: Hollywood’s Fragile Home Stories in the 1950s and 1960s --; 8. Suburban Sublime --; 9. Domestic Containment for Whom? Gendered and Racial Variations on Cold War Modernity in the Apartment Plot --; 10. Success and the Single Girl: Urban Romances of Working Women --; 11. Paris Loves Lovers and Americans Loved Paris: Gender, Class, and Modernity in the Postwar Hollywood Musical --; 12. Straight to Baby: Scoring Female Jazz Agency and New Masculinity in Henry Mancini’s Peter Gunn --; Index; restricted access N2 - Examines how Cold War films depicted pertinent issues of American social class and genderProvides studies of emerging film genres and cycles in the Cold War periodExamines how new genres recast gender and class conditions in terms of defining urban and suburban AmericaReveals new directions and successful strategies in Cold War studio production Charts new developments in film narratives that define American social concerns Refocuses critical attention upon the diverse politics of American film cultureFrom the mid-1940s to the late 1980s American film studios enjoyed commercial success in a range of often overlooked genres, employing a new realism to depict social class structures, capitalist desires and the expansion of the marketplace, and to turn American cultural values comically and subversively against themselves. With case studies of the Cold War comedy, the ‘rogue cop’ film, the brainwashing thriller and the urban romances that defined the ‘new woman’, Cold War Film Genres explores these myriad productions, redefining American cinematic history with a more inclusive view of the types of films that post-war audiences actually enjoyed, and that the studios provided for them UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474412957 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474412957 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474412957/original ER -