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It Came From the 1950s!

Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Darryl Jones

    1. Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

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  2. Elizabeth McCarthy

    1. Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

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  3. Bernice M. Murphy

    1. Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Darryl Jones, Elizabeth McCarthy, Bernice M. Murphy
    Pages 1-16

  3. A-Bombs, B-Pictures, and C-Cups

    • David J. Skal
    Pages 17-32

  4. ‘It’s in the Trees! It’s Coming!’ Night of the Demon and the Decline and Fall of the British Empire

    • Darryl Jones
    Pages 33-54

  5. Mutants and Monsters

    • Kim Newman
    Pages 55-71

  6. ‘Don’t Dare See It Alone!’ The Fifties Hammer Invasion

    • Wayne Kinsey
    Pages 72-89

  7. Genre, Special Effects and Authorship in the Critical Reception of Science Fiction Film and Television during the 1950s

    • Mark Jancovich, Derek Johnston
    Pages 90-107

  8. Hammer’s Dracula

    • Christopher Frayling
    Pages 108-134

  9. Fast Cars and Bullet Bras: The Image of the Female Juvenile Delinquent in 1950s America

    • Elizabeth McCarthy
    Pages 135-157

  10. ‘A Search for the Father-Image’: Masculine Anxiety in Robert Bloch’s 1950s Fiction

    • Kevin Corstorphine
    Pages 158-175

  11. ‘Reading her Difficult Riddle’: Shirley Jackson and Late 1950s’ Anthropology

    • Dara Downey
    Pages 176-197

  12. ‘At My Cooking I Feel It Looking’: Food, Domestic Fantasies and Consumer Anxiety in Sylvia Plath’s Writing

    • Lorna Piatti-Farnell
    Pages 198-215

  13. ‘All that Zombies Allow’ Re-Imagining the Fifties in Far from Heaven and Fido

    • Bernice M. Murphy
    Pages 216-233

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 234-262
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About this book

An eclectic 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. 1950s popular culture is analysed by leading scholars and critics such as Christopher Frayling, Mark Jancovich, Kim Newman and David J. Skal.

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'This collection by a range of leading scholars probes beneath the surface of 1950s American culture to examine the undercurrents of anxiety which the material prosperity of that decade was concealing. The resulting analysis of popular genres, particularly fiction and film, sheds fascinating new light on a period which is far more complex than we had imagined.' - David Seed, University of Liverpool, UK

Editors and Affiliations

  • Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

    Darryl Jones, Elizabeth McCarthy, Bernice M. Murphy

About the editors

KEVIN CORSTORPHINE Lecturer in English at the University of Hull, UK DARA DOWNEY IRCHSS Post-doctoral research fellow at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING Rector and Professor of Cultural History at the Royal College of Art in London from 1996-2009, as well as a former Chairman of the Arts Council England, UK MARK JANCOVICH Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK DEREK JOHNSTON Ph.D. Graduate from the University of East Anglia, UK WAYNE KINSEY Consultant Histopathologist in Norwich and Lecturer at the University of East Anglia School of Medicine, UK KIM NEWMAN Novelist, critic and broadcaster LORNA PIATTI-FARNELL Lecturer in Cultural and Communication Studies at Auckland University of Technology, Australia DAVID J. SKAL Author and Documentary Filmmaker

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