David Parkinson, History of Film, Thames and Hudson, 1995.
'if divestiture and television had prompted the technical experiments of the 1950s, fear of black-listing was largely responsible for the new directions taken with the Hollywood genres' (p.168.)
Ethan Mordden, Medium Cool: The Movies of the 1960's, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.
'Hollywood spent much of the 1950s running on empty, hoping to maintain worn-out genres, themes, and characters while trying to outdazzle television with technology rather than content' (p.33)
Brian Neve, Film and Politics in America: A Social Tradition, Routledge, London, 1992.
'In the early 1950's the post war impetus towards social realism ran up against the newand pervasive ideological concerns of the period.' (p.181)
It would seem that the decline in the social conent of Hollywood films that Dorothy Jobes finds for the period 1947-1954 reflects a number od factors. The black listing and exile of many of the writers and directors who were most interested in social issues may have had an affect, but probably more important were judgements made by those who produced and financed films.' (p.181)
'By the mid 1950s the relative prosperity was throwing up problems that seemed quite different from those of the 1930s.' (p.182)
'The Cold War increased the influence of the military in society, a trend symbolised by General Eisenhower's elevation to the presidency, and marked by an increase in war films.' (p.204)
'By the mid 1950's writers were becoming increasingly conscious thatthe depression politics, of economic crisis and class conflict, had given way to a new politics based on consensus and prosperity.' (p.209)
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