Author Archive for: ‘Caryl Flinn’

Uploaded 30 June 2000 The Fifties surely exist as one of film scholarship’s more intriguing and overdetermined sites. This period is routinely constructed as a hotbed of (choose one): political paranoia, fear of atomic annihilation, anti-communist hysteria and Eisenhowerian complacency, conditions which have been repeatedly “read off” a number of Fifties films. Some genres, of course, have become more susceptible …