From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors: Constructing American Boyhood in Postwar Hollywood Films - Image 1

£120.00

Rutgers University Press From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors: Constructing American Boyhood in Postwar Hollywood Films

Name: From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors: Constructing American Boyhood in Postwar Hollywood Films
Brand: Rutgers University Press
Price: 120.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

United States

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

£120 today · cheaper than every other day in the last 3 months

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 50 days • 50 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 50 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £120 (50 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £120 - £120

Price levels: 1 different prices over 50 days

Description

After World War II, studies examining youth culture on the silver screen start with James Dean. But the angst that Dean symbolized--anxieties over parents, the "Establishment," and the expectations of future citizen-soldiers--long predated Rebels without a Cause. Historians have largely overlooked how the Great Depression and World War II impacted and shaped the Cold War, and youth contributed to the national ideologies of family and freedom. From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors explores this gap by connecting facets of boyhood as represented in American film from the 1930s to the postwar years. From the Andy Hardy series to pictures such as The Search, Intruder in the Dust, and The Gunfighter, boy characters addressed larger concerns over the dysfunctional family unit, militarism, the "race question," and the international scene as the Korean War began. Navigating the political, social, and economic milieus inside and outside of Hollywood, Peter W.Y. Lee demonstrates that continuities from the 1930s influenced the unique postwar moment, coalescing into anticommunism and the Cold War. Review "A specter was haunting mid-twentieth century Hollywood - the specter of the rebellious boy. Peter W.Y. Lee ably shows how US filmmakers of the period created a cast of culturally potent boy characters to arbitrate conflicts of age, gender, race, class, and political ideology at the dawning of the American Century. From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors is required reading for historians of youth, film, and the early Cold War."--Mischa Honeck "author of Our Frontier Is the World, The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy" About the Author PETER W.Y. LEE is an independent historian specializing in American history and youth culture. He has published widely on comic books, film, and television. His most recent edited volume is Peanuts and American Culture: Essays on Charles M. Schulz's Iconic Comic Strip.

Product Specifications

Brand: Rutgers University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1978813473
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Film > History & Criticism > United States
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 12 February 2021
Listed Since: 24 March 2020

Barcode

No barcode data available

Rutgers University Press From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors: Constructing American Boyhood in Postwar Hollywood Films

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Younger Than That Now: The Politics of Age in the 1960s (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)

Let’S Spend the Night Together: Sex, Pop Music and British Youth Culture, 1950s–80s (Subcultures and Social Change)

We Boys Together: Teenagers in Love Before Girl-craziness

Coming of Age under Martial Law: The Initiation Novels of Poland's Last Communist Generation (Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe)

Cinema and the Cultural Cold War: US Diplomacy and the Origins of the Asian Cinema Network (The United States in the World)

1945 The Year You Were Born: UK and World News From Every Day Of The Year. A Birthday Gift Book For Men And Women

Mobilizing Shanghai Youth: CCP Internationalism, GMD Nationalism and Japanese Collaboration (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)

Hollywood and the Baby Boom: A Social History

Routledge Mobilizing Shanghai Youth - History of Modern Asia

European Cities, Youth and the Public Sphere in the Twentieth Century (Historical Urban Studies Series)

Broadcasting Hollywood: The Struggle over Feature Films on Early TV

Culture and International Relations

Probing Popular Culture: On and Off the Internet - Routledge

Remapping the Cold War in Asian Cinemas (Critical Asian Cinemas)

Lutherans and the Longest War: Adrift on a Sea of Doubt About the Cold and Vietnam Wars, 1964-1975

The Global 1970s: Radicalism, Reform, and Crisis (Decades in Global History)

Reframing Vivien Leigh: Stardom, Gender, and the Archive

The Cinema of Russia and the Former Soviet Union (24 Frames)

You Are 8 And Amazing! Inspiring Stories For 8 Year Old Boys: 15 Motivating Tales About Courage, Self-Confidence, Friendships and Kindness (You Are Amazing!)

Feminism after 9/11: Women’s Bodies as Cultural and Political Threat (Breaking Feminist Waves)

Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea: Freedom's Frontier (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare)

Schule und Jugendforschung zum 20. Jahrhundert: Festschrift für Wilfried Breyvogel: 25 (Studien zur Jugendforschung, 25)

Seeking Balance: Asia Responds to China's Rise: China's Rise and Balancing in the Indo-Pacific (American Foreign Policy Council)

Jugend an der Wende vom 20. zum 21. Jahrhundert: Lebensformen und Lebensstile