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If you listen to the Left, the 1950s were a decade of boring conformity, and the movies of that era, one is told, were a reflection thereof.
“It’s a Wonderful Life” is of course obligatory this time of year. Slightly more sophisticated and, in its way, just as moving is a superbly acted 1952 British film, “The Holly and the Ivy.”
While on tour for his new book about a West Bank tragedy, Nathan Thrall reflects on how this week's horrors change everything. Plus, more books news of the week
Foster Hirsch's 'Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties' is as grand as the movie palaces it documents. It's a lifelong passion project that resonates today
When film historian Foster Hirsch began research for his latest book about the changing and turbulent movie landscape of the 1950s, he could not have known the timeliness of his subject matter upon the release of “Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties: The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher.” Following a summer of historic Hollywood strikes and discussions about our own new technology, evolving studio framework and the increasing import of television, Hirsch looks to history to show us there is nothing new unde...