The Fifties Family in Film and Television
by
Nina C. Leibman
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
With a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and squeaky-clean kids, the 1950s television family has achieved near mythological status as a model of what real families "ought" to be. Yet feature films of the period often portrayed families in trouble, with parents and children in conflict over...