The 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, including Citizen Kane, Rebecca, The Lady Eve, Sergeant York, and How Green Was My Valley...
Ellery Queen, Boston Blackie, Michael Shayne, Dick Tracy, the Falcon…these are but a few of the celebrated fictional sleuths who appeared in popular Hollywood movie mystery series. This volume focuses on 19 series (146 films) that were primarily released during the 1940s...
Boom and Bust traces the movie industry through the momentous decade of the 1940s. It discusses changes in the structure of the studio systemincluding the shift to independent productionand the dominant stars, genres, and production trends through the period.
This book explores the major cultural forms of 1940s America - fiction and non-fiction; music and radio; film and theatre; serious and popular visual arts - and key texts, trends and figures, from Native Son to Citizen Kane, from Hiroshima to HUAC, and from Dr Seuss to Bob Hope...
The definitive book on 1940s fashion in America, Europe, Australasia, and Japan.From French style under the Occupation and the "make do and mend" approach to wartime clothing shortages through issues of dress, patriotism, and propaganda to the rise of American fashion houses in the postwar period: here is a comprehensive look at the fashions and styles that emerged around the world during the 1940s...
Just open this "Party in a Book" for hours of nostalgic fun. From an overview of the decade, to songs and albums that were tops of the charts, popular television shows, Academy Award-winning movies, and books that "everyone" bought--to historic events and people that shaped our nation and the world, everything about the forties is inside this book! You'll find lists of the decade's greatest sporting events, as well as clothing trends, hairstyles, interior design references, popular foods--even a recipe representative of the era! With slang and buzzwords on every page, you'll be reminded of pop culture references that are still heard today, and remember things that society has moved beyond...
The history of the British home in the 1940s is dominated by the impacts Second World War. In the first five years of the decade, homes were adapted to better survive the affects of bombing. The 1930s home became the wartime home with the addition of anti-blast tape on the windows, sandbags around the door, and a Morrison shelter in the kitchen...
The forgotten history of the “all-girl” big bands of the World War II era takes center stage in Sherrie Tucker’s Swing Shift. American demand for swing skyrocketed with the onslaught of war as millions—isolated from loved ones—sought diversion, comfort, and social contact through music and dance...
From C. L. Moore's 1944 pulp-magazine novella about cyborgs to Joan D. Vinge's 1978 tale of a spacewoman's triumph, eighteen well-known and obscure stories by and about women are accompanied by new introductions and bibliographies...
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Captain America fought for justice twenty years before the other Marvel heroes and this was the shield he used. Our 1/6 scale Golden Age shield is faithfully recreated in die cast metal. Captain America may be a man out of time, but if you want his shield, you'll have to act fast...
Betty Boop was created by legendary animator Max Fleischer. With her overt sexual appeal, Betty was a hit with filmgoers, and despite having been toned down in the mid-1930s, she remains popular today...
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