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From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors : Constructing American Boyhood in Postwar Hollywood Films / Peter W.Y. Lee.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (252 p.) : 35 b-w images, 4 color images, 2 tablesContent type:
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  • 9781978813502
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/653 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.B74 L44 2021
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Introduction: Are the Kids All Right? -- 1 The Family in Trouble, 1920–1945 -- 2 Gable Is Able: Re-creating the Postwar Family -- 3 Curbing Delinquency: Hot Rodding and Hot Rods -- 4 Whitewashing the Race Cycle in 1949 -- 5 The International Picture -- Conclusion Revising the “Deanlinquent" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: After World War II, studies examining youth culture on the silver screen start with James Dean. But the angst that Dean symbolized—anxieties over parents, the “Establishment,” and the expectations of future citizen-soldiers—long predated Rebels without a Cause. Historians have largely overlooked how the Great Depression and World War II impacted and shaped the Cold War, and youth contributed to the national ideologies of family and freedom. From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors explores this gap by connecting facets of boyhood as represented in American film from the 1930s to the postwar years. From the Andy Hardy series to pictures such as The Search, Intruder in the Dust, and The Gunfighter, boy characters addressed larger concerns over the dysfunctional family unit, militarism, the “race question,” and the international scene as the Korean War began. Navigating the political, social, and economic milieus inside and outside of Hollywood, Peter W.Y. Lee demonstrates that continuities from the 1930s influenced the unique postwar moment, coalescing into anticommunism and the Cold War.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Introduction: Are the Kids All Right? -- 1 The Family in Trouble, 1920–1945 -- 2 Gable Is Able: Re-creating the Postwar Family -- 3 Curbing Delinquency: Hot Rodding and Hot Rods -- 4 Whitewashing the Race Cycle in 1949 -- 5 The International Picture -- Conclusion Revising the “Deanlinquent" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

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After World War II, studies examining youth culture on the silver screen start with James Dean. But the angst that Dean symbolized—anxieties over parents, the “Establishment,” and the expectations of future citizen-soldiers—long predated Rebels without a Cause. Historians have largely overlooked how the Great Depression and World War II impacted and shaped the Cold War, and youth contributed to the national ideologies of family and freedom. From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors explores this gap by connecting facets of boyhood as represented in American film from the 1930s to the postwar years. From the Andy Hardy series to pictures such as The Search, Intruder in the Dust, and The Gunfighter, boy characters addressed larger concerns over the dysfunctional family unit, militarism, the “race question,” and the international scene as the Korean War began. Navigating the political, social, and economic milieus inside and outside of Hollywood, Peter W.Y. Lee demonstrates that continuities from the 1930s influenced the unique postwar moment, coalescing into anticommunism and the Cold War.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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