Join Sundays at JASA as writer Foster Hirsch will discuss his latest book Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties. A fascinating look at Hollywood’s most turbulent decade, the demise of the studio system — set against the boom of the post—World War II years, the Cold War, and the atomic age — and the movies that reflected the seismic shifts.

Hollywood in the 1950s was a period when the film industry set conventions and broke norms and traditions—from Cinerama, CinemaScope, and VistaVision to epic films and lavish musicals. It was a decade that saw the rise of the anti-hero; the smoldering, the hidden, and the unspoken; teenagers gone wild in the streets; the sacred and the profane; the revolution of the Method; the socially conscious; the implosion of the studios; the end of the production code; and the invasion of the ultimate body snatcher: the “small screen” television.

Foster Hirsch is a professor of film at Brooklyn College and the author of sixteen books on film and theater, including Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King, The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir, and A Method to Their Madness: The History of the Actors Studio.

Time: 12:00-12:55 pm EDT

Free!

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