The Cool and the Crazy: Pop Fifties Cinema
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 4807
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- ISBN
- 9780813572987
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The project investigated the history of how film cycles were categorised by film companies, the trade press and in everyday discourse in the 1950s. The monograph required sustained research at archives and libraries in London, New York and Los Angeles to access extensive censorship and production records, along with many marketing and exhibition materials. These documents formed the foundation for the social and cultural histories behind the seven case studies of postwar films. They informed the methodology used to interrogate received film cycle theory, and to advance a more complex, multi-dimensional, historically nuanced concept of topicality, seriality and popular film.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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