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Author: Robert P. Kolker
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.425kg
ISBN: 9781978820920
ISBN 10: 1978820925
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 15 October 2021
Recommended Age: From 16 to 99 years
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
New Books Network: New Books in Film interview with Robert P. Kolker -- New Books Network: New Books in Film Robert Kolker ingeniously uses George Kennan's Cold War strategy of 'containment' as a metaphor to illuminate the complex interplay between movies and politics in this personal, yet incisive exploration of America's pop culture in the 1950's. --Peter Biskind author of Seeing is Believing and Easy Riders, Raging Bulls Unabashedly autobiographical and unapologetically auteurist, Robert Kolker's trip into the fever heat of 1950s American cinema is an eloquent and erudite delight. --Peter Stanfield author of The Cool and the Crazy: Pop Fifties Cinema
Robert Kolker ingeniously uses George Kennan's Cold War strategy of 'containment' as a metaphor to illuminate the complex interplay between movies and politics in this personal, yet incisive exploration of America's pop culture in the 1950's. --Peter Biskind author of Seeing is Believing and Easy Riders, Raging Bulls Unabashedly autobiographical and unapologetically auteurist, Robert Kolker's trip into the fever heat of 1950s American cinema is an eloquent and erudite delight. --Peter Stanfield author of The Cool and the Crazy: Pop Fifties Cinema
"""New Books Network: New Books in Film interview with Robert P. Kolker""-- ""New Books Network: New Books in Film"" ""Robert Kolker ingeniously uses George Kennan's Cold War strategy of 'containment' as a metaphor to illuminate the complex interplay between movies and politics in this personal, yet incisive exploration of America's pop culture in the 1950's.""--Peter Biskind ""author of Seeing is Believing and Easy Riders, Raging Bulls"" ""Unabashedly autobiographical and unapologetically auteurist, Robert Kolker's trip into the fever heat of 1950s American cinema is an eloquent and erudite delight.""--Peter Stanfield ""author of The Cool and the Crazy: Pop Fifties Cinema"""
"“Unabashedly autobiographical and unapologetically auteurist, Robert Kolker’s trip into the fever heat of 1950s American cinema is an eloquent and erudite delight.” -- Peter Stanfield * author of The Cool and the Crazy: Pop Fifties Cinema * “Robert Kolker ingeniously uses George Kennan’s Cold War strategy of 'containment' as a metaphor to illuminate the complex interplay between movies and politics in this personal, yet incisive exploration of America’s pop culture in the 1950’s.” -- Peter Biskind * author of Seeing is Believing and Easy Riders, Raging Bulls * ""New Books Network: New Books in Film interview with Robert P. Kolker"" * New Books Network: New Books in Film *"
Author Information
ROBERT P. KOLKER is a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland in College Park. He is author of numerous books, including The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and the Reimagining of Cinema (Rutgers University Press), A Cinema of Loneliness, Film, Form, and Culture, and, with Nathan Abrams, Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of his Final Film. He is currently at work on a biography of Stanley Kubrick with Nathan Abrams.
