It came from the 1950s! : popular culture, popular anxieties / edited by Darryl Jones, Elizabeth McCarthy, Bernice M. Murphy.
"It came from the 1950s is an eclectic, witty, and insightful collection of essays predicated on the hypothesis that popular cultural documents provide unique insights into the concerns, anxieties, and desires of their times. The essays explore the emergence of "Hammer Horror" and the...
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Table of Contents:
- A-Bombs, B-Pictures and C-Cups / D.J. Skal
- "It's in the trees! It's coming!" : Night of the Demon and the Decline and Fall of the British Empire / D. Jones
- Mutants and Monsters / K. Newman
- "Don't Dare See It Alone!" : The Fifties Hammer Invasion / W. Kinsey
- Genre, Special Effects, and Authorship in the Critical Reception of Science Fiction Film and Television during the 1950s / M. Jancovich & D. Johnston
- Hammer's Dracula / C. Frayling
- Fast Cars and Bullet Bras : The Image of the Female Juvenile Delinquent in 1950s America / E. McCarthy
- A Search for the Father-Image : Masculine Anxiety in Robert Bloch's 1950s Fiction / K. Corstorphine
- "Reading her Difficult Riddle" : Shirley Jackson and late 1950s' Anthropology / D. Downey
- "At My Cooking I Feel It Looking" : Food, Domestic Fantasies, and Consumer Anxiety in Sylvia Plath's Writing / L. Piatti-Farnell
- All that Zombies Allow : Re-Imagining the Fifties in Far From Heaven and Fido / B.M. Murphy
- Filmography.