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The other fifties : interrogating midcentury American icons / edited by Joel Foreman.
| Other author | Foreman, Joel. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1997. |
| Description | 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The frustrated persuader : Fairfax M. Cone and the Edsel advertising campaign, 1957-59 / James L. Baughman -- Postwar white girls' dark other / Wini Breines -- Mau Mau's American career, 1952-57 / Joel Foreman -- The opening of America : meaningful difference in 1950s television / Horace Newcomb -- Watching Elvis : the male rock star as object of the gaze / David R. Shumway -- Memory and repression in early ethnic television : the example of Gertrude Berg and the Goldbergs / Donald Weber -- What Lola got : cultural carelessness on Broadway / David Van Leer -- The prime of Miss Kim Novak : struggling over the feminine in the star image / Jackie Byars -- Split screens : framing and passing in pillow talk / Cynthia J. Fuchs -- Democracy, capitalism, and American literature : the cold war construction of J.D. Salinger's paperback hero / Lee Medovoi -- Something old, something new, something borrowed, something (red, white, and) blue : Ayn Rand's Atlas shrugged and objectivist ideology / Stacey Olster -- The road to rapprochement : Khrushchev's 1959 visit to America / Stephen J. Whitfield. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 96010004 |
| ISBN | 0252022718 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0252065743 (pbk. : alk. paper) |