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From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors Constructing American Boyhood in Postwar Hollywood Films

Lee, Peter W.Y.
Innbundet / 2021 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781978813472
Publisert
2021-02-12
Utgiver
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Rutgers University Press
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454 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, U, P, 01, 05, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Innbundet

Forfatter
Lee, Peter W.Y.

Biographical note

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.
 

From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors Constructing American Boyhood in Postwar Hollywood Films

Lee, Peter W.Y.
Innbundet / 2021 / Engelsk
Lee, Peter W.Y.
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"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. <i>From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors</i> 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

"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. <i>From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors</i> 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

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.    
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Peter W.Y. Lee explores how the legacy of the Great Depression and World War II shaped the formative years of the Cold War. Lee uses youth culture in American films to show how the postwar concerns over the family, race, militarism, and internationalism were carryovers from the past 15 years, which coalesced into anticommunism.         
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Contents List of Figures List of Tables Foreword Chronology List of Abbreviations Introduction: Are the Kids All Right? 1          The Family in Trouble, 1920-1945                  2          Gable is Able: Re-Creating the Postwar Family                    3          Curbing Delinquency: Hot Rods and Hotrodding      4          Whitewashing the Race Cycle in 1949            5          The International Picture Conclusion: Revising the “Deanlinquent”     Acknowledgments      Bibliography   Index  
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"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. <i>From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors</i> 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

"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. <i>From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors</i> 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

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.    
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Peter W.Y. Lee explores how the legacy of the Great Depression and World War II shaped the formative years of the Cold War. Lee uses youth culture in American films to show how the postwar concerns over the family, race, militarism, and internationalism were carryovers from the past 15 years, which coalesced into anticommunism.         
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Contents List of Figures List of Tables Foreword Chronology List of Abbreviations Introduction: Are the Kids All Right? 1          The Family in Trouble, 1920-1945                  2          Gable is Able: Re-Creating the Postwar Family                    3          Curbing Delinquency: Hot Rods and Hotrodding      4          Whitewashing the Race Cycle in 1949            5          The International Picture Conclusion: Revising the “Deanlinquent”     Acknowledgments      Bibliography   Index  
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781978813472
Publisert
2021-02-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Rutgers University Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, U, P, 01, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Lee, Peter W.Y.

Biographical note

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.
 

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