COM-260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Rko Pictures, Aisle, Mccarthyism
7 Apr 2016
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Move to suburbs from cities [carollwood, new tampa] Post-war wwii growth/success [didn"t get bombed, no rebuilding] Less constrained popular culture [marilyn monroe, elvis, etc. ], much like the 20"s. more freer sexuality. Television takes over for radio in the home. Leave it to beaver [typical 1950s family], important perfect world image to have. Civil rights early stages: brown v. board of education [1954] Manifestation of cold war, what you"re afraid of, not the dream, but the nightmare [afraid of russia] Duck and cover, let"s face it, house in the middle [1954] national clean up fix up bureau tells you to clean up your house. What happening in america in 1954, rise of civil rights and combat b/w polite white social society in the suburbs and the others . Redlining, you can"t get a mortgage in certain neighborhoods if you"re black. About the suburban dream and how it fuses w/ cold war.
