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The 1950s

The 1950s

Young, William H.

Hardcover

Series: American Popular Culture Through History

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0313323933
ISBN13: 9780313323935
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: Apr 30 2004
Pages: 372
Weight: 1.54
Height: 1.23 Width: 6.18 Depth: 9.52
Language: English
Have the 1950s been overly romanticized? Beneath the calm, conformist exterior, new ideas and attitudes were percolating. This was the decade of McCarthyism, Levittowns, and men in gray flannel suits, but the 1950s also saw bold architectural styles, the rise of paperback novels and the Beat writers, Cinema Scope and film noir, television variety shows, the Golden Age of the automobile, subliminal advertising, fast food, Frisbees, and silly putty. Meanwhile, teens attained a more prominent role in American culture with hot rods, rock 'n' roll, preppies and greasers, and--gasp--juvenile delinquency. At the same time, a new technological threat, the atom bomb, lurked beneath the surface of the postwar decade. This volume presents a nuanced look at a surprisingly complex time in American popular culture.

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