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Pages: 228
Authors: Andrew Rosen
Categories: Great Britain
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This book should be of use to undergraduates reading modern British history, as well as students of modern British culture and society.
Screening the Hollywood rebels in 1950s Britain
Language: en
Pages: 156
Authors: Anna Ariadne Knight
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-28 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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This book examines issues of censorship, publicity and teenage fandom in 1950s Britain surrounding a series of controversial Hollywood films: The Wild One, Blac
America in the British Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 266
Authors: J. Lyons
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-18 - Publisher: Springer

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How was American culture disseminated into Britain? Why did many British citizens embrace American customs? And what picture did they form of American society a
The Creolisation of London Kinship
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Elaine Bauer
Categories: Social Science
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In the last 50 years, the United Kingdom has witnessed a growing proportion of mixed African-Caribbean and white British families. With rich new primary evidenc
Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: Matthew Jones
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-30 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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For the last sixty years discussion of 1950s science fiction cinema has been dominated by claims that the genre reflected US paranoia about Soviet brainwashing