Postwar Anxieties and Hollywood Films, 1947-1960
by
N. Megan Kelley
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
A key concern in postwar America was "who's passing for whom?" Analyzing representations of passing in Hollywood films reveals changing cultural ideas about authenticity and identity in a country reeling from a hot war and moving towards a cold one. After World War II, passing became an...