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Explosive! Terrifying! You won't believe your eyes! Such movie taglines were common in the 1950s, as Hollywood churned out low-budget pictures that were sold on the basis of their sensational content. This title examines seven of these film cycles, including short-lived trends like boxing movies, war pictures, and social problem films, as well as uniquely 1950s takes on established genres like the gangster picture.

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Explosive! Terrifying! You won't believe your eyes! Such movie taglines were common in the 1950s, as Hollywood churned out low-budget pictures that were sold on the basis of their sensational content. This title examines seven of these film cycles, including short-lived trends like boxing movies, war pictures, and social problem films, as well as uniquely 1950s takes on established genres like the gangster picture.
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Autorenporträt
PETER STANFIELD is a professor in the film department at the University of Kent, UK. His previous books include Maximum Movies—Pulp Fiction: Film Culture and the Worlds of Mickey Spillane, Samuel Fuller, and Jim Thompson, "Un-American" Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era (both Rutgers University Press), and Horse Opera: The Strange History of the Singing Cowboy.