American Decades
Publications
Leo Lowenthai, Literature, Popular Culture, and Society (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1961);
Bernard Rosenberg and David Manning White, eds., Mass Culture: Popular Arts in America (Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1957).
Movies
George Bluestone, Novels into Film (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957);
George N. Fenin and William K. Everson, The Western (New York: Orion, 1962);
Penelope Houston, The Contemporary Cinema, 1945-1963 (Baltimore: Penguin, 1963);
Houston, Introduction to the Art of the Movies (New York: Noonday Press, 1960);
Siegfried Kracauer, Theory of Film (New York: Oxford University Press, 1960);
Film Culture, periodical;
Photoplay, periodical.
Music
Whitney Balliert, The Sound of Surprise: 46 Pieces on Jazz (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1959);
Rudi Blesh,...
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1950's The Arts
- Overview
- Topics in the News
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Headline Makers
- Bernstein, Leonard 1918-1990
- Brando, Marlon 1924-
- Dean, James 1931-1955
- De Kooning, Willem 1904
- Faulkner, William 1897-1962
- Hemingway, Ernest 1899-1961
- Kerouac, Jack 1922-1969
- Monroe, Marilyn 1926-1962
- Parker, Charlie 1920-1955
- Pollock, Jackson 1912-1956
- Presley, Elvis 1935-1977
- Salinger, J. D. 1919-
- Williams, Hank 1924-1953
- People in the News
- Awards
- Deaths
- Publications
- Important Events in the Arts, 1950–1959
