  Style and the HomeThe New Look
With the war over, for women some things changed while others remained all too much the same... Read More
Fashion, Film Noir and Romance
At the same time as Christian Dior was creating a nostalgic fashion and the French film industry was revitalizing itself, with period... Read More
Evolution of Fashion Styles
Fashion is how we express our identitites. Fashion not only highlights the social history and the needs of women, but also the overall cultural aesthetic of the... Read More
Reappearance of Youth Fashions
Fashion is a way of life; an attitude that transcends through your ensemble displaying your own originality. Read More
Design for the Nuclear Family
The prime difficulty in most city planning until the 20th century was due to the fact that too few trained individuals had given specific thought to such problems as the regulation of traffic, control of the ingress of food stuffs, and the elimination of waste material. Read More
The Promotion of Lifestyle
With the Arcadian and Utopian idea continually before him, the average American considers the ideal living conditions to be such as will allow him a maximum of space in an individual home, preferably in the suburbs. Read More
1950's Cars: Dream Machines
With the return of prosperity in the early 1920's, the American automobile industry came into its own as the nation's largest manufacturing enterprise. Read More
Fashion Illustration
Socio economic changes that occurred during the First World War 1914-18 and became accepted, changed the role of women in a way that no amount of campaigning by a few liberated ladies could... Read More
Beatniks Generation
In the United States the Beats, or Beatniks, were originaIly a West Coast phenomenon. Like the Parisian Existentialists of the Iate 1940s they were... Read More
Advertising for Men
While, in the interwar years, most consumer goods had been aimed at a female market (even if it didn't earn the money to pay for them), by the 1950s men... Read More
Japanese Design
The question of Zen's origin and its relationship to Buddhism has been taken up by many authorities and given different answers, depending upon the author's background and point of view. Read More
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 Screens, Large and Small Hollywood and the Cold WarIn the 1930s America went to the movies; by the end of the decade some eighty million people saw a movie every week. The studios provided them with the means to live out their fantasies, find heroes, and escape from the Depression. Read More
Switching on to Television
At the opening of the twentieth century the decisive influence of the ragtime pianists fell on white audiences tiring of the minstrel show and willing to pay to hear black performers. Read More
TV Dramas and Variety Shows
On September 23, 1961, NBC introduced its new series, "Saturday Night at the Movies," featuring Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall and Betty Grable in "How to Marry a Millionaire." This broadcast was an astounding success and pointed to Hollywood's growing inclination to release its post-1948 movies to television. Read More
3-D, CinemaScope and Technicolor
The movie industry responded with attempts at expanding the medium to attract new interests: 3-D, CinemaScope, Technicolor; and it continues to experiment: quadraphonic sound, sensurround, holographic images, and giant leaps in special effects have been tried. Read More
Drive-in Cinemas
While many movie theaters in small American towns closed in the 1950s, an equal number of a new kind of theater, which recognized the supremacy of the automobile in American life, opened up. In the 1920s concerned parents had been anxious about the effects of automobiles and movies on their children's morals; their grandchildren could now combine these menaces to their moral welfare at the drive-in. Read More
Film Outside Hollywood
Each big producing firm in Italy had its own company of actors under annual contract. Actors like Emilio Ghione (who was a director as well as an actor, and has written a brief essay on the Italian film), actresses like Maria Jacobini, Gianna TerribiliGonzales of the unforgettable name, and the pre-eminent star Francesca Bertini, directors like Gabriellino d'Annunzio, Negroni, Righelli and Guazzoni all made up a picturesque and lively group. There were also Augusto Genina and Carmine Gallone, who were later to direct some fairly good films in France. Read More
Marilyn Monroe: The Dream Woman
Stars are important to us because they act out aspects of life that matter to us, and though we may tend to think of the things that matter to us as immutable and enduring, they are nonetheless only ever encountered in a culturally and historically specific context. Read More
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  The Emergence of the TeenagerDiscovering the Teenagers
Until 1950 the term teenagers had never before been coined. The word "teenage" had first appeared in the popular press in the 1920s, but the idea that there was a time of life between childhood and adulthood that could be isolated, and that had its own peculiar characteristics, belongs largely to the 1950s. Read More
Alan Freed, A Record Consultant
Alan Freed claimed that he was paid as a “record consultant” to the music business, but in truth, he was simply capitalizing on a long-stand industry tradition of disc-jockey pay-offs. There was no federal charge against payola until 1960, so technically payoffs weren’t illegal. Read More
Billboard, Melody Maker and Rhythm & Blues
Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was, according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly music newspaper. It was founded in 1926 as a magazine targeted at musicians; in 2000 it was merged into "long-standing rival" (and IPC Media sister publication) New Musical Express. Read More
The Birth of Rock'n' Roll and Arrival of Elvis Presley
The first two Elvis Presley albums, both on RCA in 1956, neatly illustrate the basic dichotomy: Elvis Presley shows him onstage, eyes shut and mouth wide open, with his guitar thrust in the air, while Elvis has him seated in a staged pose, strumming his guitar. Here is the musician, they seem to say, and here are his musical instruments, his primary materials: his voice and his guitar. Read More
Rock Music, Jukeboxes and Top 40 Programming
Rock and roll, which the industry learned to ride to a staggering new sales volume, also jarred that industry into new patterns: new companies, new small-group recording economics, new audience definitions, and new relationships to radio broadcasting. Read More
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