Movie Love in the Fifties de James Harvey - 2001-10-23

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Knopf, October 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Light coverwear ; 9.40 X 6.60 X 1.70 inches

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 2001. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 448 pp. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 2001. xi, 448 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "From the author of Romantic Comedy ('brilliant, meticulous, a monumental work of scholarship'--Margo Jefferson, New York Times), a fresh, illuminating look at the films of the 1950s. Harvey begins by mapping the progression from 1940s film noir to the living-room melodramas of the 1950s. He shows us the femme fatale of the 1940s (Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Bennett) becoming blander and blonder (Doris Day, Debbie Reynolds) and younger and more traditionally sexy (Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly) in the 1950s. And he shows us how women were finally replaced as objects of desire by the new boy-men--Clift, Brando, Dean, and other rebels without causes. Harvey discusses the films of Hitchcock (Vertigo), Ophuls (The Reckless Moment), Siodmak (Christmas Holiday), and Welles (Touch of Evil, perhaps the… Leer más