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Edited by Homer B. Pettey, University of Arizona

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: April 2021
Print publication year:: 2018
Online ISBN:: 9781474412957

Subjects:: Film, Film, Media, Mass Communication

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With case studies of the Cold War comedy, the 'rogue cop' film, the brainwashing thriller and the urban romances, 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.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments
pp ix-ix

Notes on the Contributors
pp x-xii

1 - Introduction: Cold War Genres and the Rock-and-Roll Film
pp 1-20

2 - Social Factors in Brainwashing Films of the 1950s and 1960s
pp 21-41

3 - The Berlin Crisis? Piffl!: Billy Wilder’s Cold War Comedy, One, Two, Three
pp 42-61

4 - The Small Adult Film: A Prestige Form of Cold War Cinema
pp 62-78

5 - “I’m Lucky – I Had Rich Parents”: Disability and Class in the Postwar Biopic Genre
pp 79-98

6 - Rogue Nation, 1954: History, Class Consciousness, and the “Rogue Cop” Film
pp 99-122

7 - Internal Enmity: Hollywood’s Fragile Home Stories in the 1950s and 1960s
pp 123-143

8 - Suburban Sublime
pp 144-162

9 - Domestic Containment for Whom? Gendered and Racial Variations on Cold War Modernity in the Apartment Plot
pp 163-180

10 - Success and the Single Girl: Urban Romances of Working Women
pp 181-203

11 - Paris Loves Lovers and Americans Loved Paris: Gender, Class, and Modernity in the Postwar Hollywood Musical
pp 204-227

12 - Straight to Baby: Scoring Female Jazz Agency and New Masculinity in Henry Mancini’s Peter Gunn
pp 228-258

Index
pp 259-261

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