Cold War film genres / edited by Homer B. Pettey.

Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.

Introduction: Cold War genres and the rock-and-roll film / Homer B. Pettey -- Social factors in brainwashing films of the 1950s and 1960s / David Seed -- The Berlin crisis? Piffl! Billy Wilder's Cold War comedy, One, Two, Three / Ed Sikov -- The small adult film: a prestige form of Cold War cinema / R. Barton Palmer -- "I'm lucky -- I had rich parents": disability and class in the postwar biopic genre / Martin F. Norden -- Rogue nation, 1954: history, class consciousness, and the "rogue cop" film / Robert Miklitsch -- Internal enmity: Hollywood's fragile home stories in the 1950s and 1960s / Elisabeth Bronfen -- Suburban sublime / Homer B. Pettey -- Domestic containment for whom? Gendered and racial variations on Cold War modernity in the apartment plot / Pamela Robertson Wojcik -- Success and the single girl: urban romances of working women / Jennifer Lei Jenkins -- Paris loves lovers and Americans loved Paris: gender, class, and modernity in the postwar Hollywood musical / Steven Cohan -- Straight to baby: scoring female jazz agency and new masculinity in Henry Mancini's Peter Gunn / Kristin McGee.

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With case studies of the Cold War comedy, the rogue cop' film, the brainwashing thriller and the urban romances, Cold War Film Genres explores these myriad productions, redefining American cinematic history with a more inclusive view of the types of films that post-war audiences actually enjoyed, and that the studios provided for them.

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