The 1940s Decade in Photos
Author: Jim Corrigan
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780766031333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the important world, national, and cultural developments of the decade 1940-1949.
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Cars of the Fascinating 40s
Author: Publications International, Limited
Publisher:
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780785362746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA memorable look at a decade that sums up all that is exciting about the American spirit. A lively, full-color celebration of an automotive era that began with '30s-fashion cars and ended with recognizably modern vehicles. It's also the story of how America's automakers helped the Allies win World War II. Uses the proven picture-caption format, with over 1,400 photos of every major make of 1940s American car, plus classic independents, such as Hudson and Studebaker. Also includes period "lifestyle" photos, contemporary auto ads, and compelling war-production art. Shows how carmakers emerged from the Great Depression, turning out guns and fighting aircraft before basking in a postwar seller's market.
Mark Rothko
Author: Bradford R. Collins
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Published: 2012-09-11
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 0847839001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first publication dedicated exclusively to Mark Rothko’s art during the critical formative period of the 1940s. Examining the development and artistic exploration of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, this unprecedented volume presents the works of American artist Mark Rothko from the 1940s, a time when his most essential development as a painter occurred, dramatically and in a very compact space of time. During this period, Rothko moved from expressive figurative and surrealist canvases to more abstract multiform subjects and finally to his signature abstractions—luminous rectangles of color suspended in space. Richly illustrated with works by Rothko and his contemporaries, introduction by Todd Herman and essays by prominent Rothko scholars, this important new book deepens our understanding of Rothko’s art during this vital period, and that of the mature works that emerged from it.
American Cinema of the 1940s
Author: Wheeler W. Dixon
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0813537002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1940s was a watershed decade for American cinema and the nation. Shaking off the grim legacy of the Depression, Hollywood launched an unprecedented wave of production, generating some of its most memorable classics. Featuring essays by a group of respected film scholars and historians, American Cinema of the 1940s brings this dynamic and turbulent decade to life with such films as Citizen Kane, Rebecca, The Lady Eve, Sergeant York, How Green Was My Valley, Casablanca, Mrs. Miniver, The Road to Morocco, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Kiss of Death, Force of Evil, Caught, and Apology for Murder. Illustrated with many rare stills and filled with provocative insights, the volume will appeal to students, teachers, and to all those interested in cultural history and American film of the twentieth century.
The 1940's: Decade of Triumph and Trouble
Author: Cabell Phillips
Publisher:
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780025961005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1950s Decade in Photos
Author: Jim Corrigan
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780766031340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the important world, national, and cultural developments of the decade 1950-1959.
What Dreams Were Made Of
Author: Sean Griffin
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2011-04-28
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 081355084X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHumphrey Bogart. Abbott and Costello. Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. John Wayne. Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable. Images of these film icons conjure up a unique moment in cinema and history, one of optimism and concern, patriotism and cynicism. What Dreams Were Made Of examines the performers who helped define American cinema in the 1940s, a decade of rapid and repeated upheaval for Hollywood and the United States. Through insightful discussions of key films as well as studio publicity and fan magazines, the essays in this collection analyze how these actors and actresses helped lift spirits during World War II, whether in service comedies, combat films, or escapist musicals. The contributors, all major writers on the stars and movies of this period, also explore how cultural shifts after the war forced many stars to adjust to new outlooks and attitudes, particularly in film noir. Together, they represented the hopes and fears of a nation during turbulent times, enacting on the silver screen the dreams of millions of moviegoers.
Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema
Author: Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2014-12-11
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 1498503802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1940s is a lost decade in horror cinema, undervalued and written out of most horror scholarship. This collection revises, reframes, and deconstructs persistent critical binaries that have been put in place by scholarly discourse to label 1940s horror as somehow inferior to a “classical” period or “canonical” mode of horror in the 1930s, especially as represented by the monster films of Universal Studios. The book's four sections re-evaluate the historical, political, economic, and cultural factors informing 1940s horror cinema to introduce new theoretical frameworks and to open up space for scholarly discussion of 1940s horror genre hybridity, periodization, and aesthetics. Chapters focused on Gothic and Grand Guignol traditions operating in forties horror cinema, 1940s proto-slasher films, the independent horrors of the Poverty Row studios, and critical reevaluations of neglected hybrid films such as The Vampire’s Ghost (1945) and “slippery” auteurs such as Robert Siodmak and Sam Neufield, work to recover a decade of horror that has been framed as having fallen victim to repetition, exhaustion, and decline.
American Decades
Author: Vincent Tompkins
Publisher: American Decades
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 658
ISBN-13: 9780810357266
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntended as a reference source for American social history, this volume discusses the people, events and ideas of the 1940s. After an introductory overview and chronology, subject chapters follow with subject-specific timelines and alphabetically arranged entries.
The 1940s
Author: Stephen Feinstein
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-07-15
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 076606929X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA decade of invention, adaptation, and creation, the 1940s were also a time of world conflict. From big band music, bobbysoxers, and Frank Sinatra to World War II, Rosie the Riveter, and the atomic bomb, readers will trace the changing attitudes of Americans through the decade. See how World War II helped end the poverty and despair of the Great Depression, ushering in a new time of prosperity in which Americans felt comfortable pursuing dreams of home ownership and family.
