Demographic Angst: Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s

[Professor Alan Nadel] ☆ Demographic Angst: Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s Ï Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Demographic Angst: Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s Prolific literature, both popular and scholarly, depicts America  in the period of the High Cold War as being obsessed with normality, implicitly figuring the postwar period as a return to the way of life that had been put on hold, first by the Great Depression and then by Pearl Harbor.  Demographic Angst argues that mandated normativity—as a political agenda and a social ethic—precluded explicit expression of the anxiety produced by America’s radically reconfigured p

Author	:	Professor Alan Nadel
Rating	:	4.12 (571 Votes)
Asin	:	0813565499
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	256 Pages
Publish Date	:	2017-03-16
Language	:	English

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Prolific literature, both popular and scholarly, depicts America  in the period of the High Cold War as being obsessed with normality, implicitly figuring the postwar period as a return to the way of life that had been put on hold, first by the Great Depression and then by Pearl Harbor.  Demographic Angst argues that mandated normativity—as a political agenda and a social ethic—precluded explicit expression of the anxiety produced by America’s radically reconfigured postwar population.  Alan Nadel explores influential non-fiction books, magazine articles, and public documents in conjunction with films such as Singin’ in the Rain, On the Waterfront, Sunset Boulevard, and Sayonara, to examine how these films worked through fresh anxieties that emerged during the 1950s.    

"Demographic Angst convincingly places movies at the center of complex cultural tensions and shifts within post-World War II America. Nadel's discussion of this topic is unprecedented."