- This documentary was broadcast on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable channel to kick off the presentation of films related to TCM's theme of the month for September 2001. Actors Lee Grant and Paul Mazursky, producer Roger Corman, director John Carpenter, film critic Molly Haskell, and journalist Peter Biskind discuss the issues involved in six films of the 1950s. Topics include teenage loneliness, youth rebellion, changing gender roles, and the beginning of the sexual revolution.—David Glagovsky <dglagovsky@prodigy.net>
- This documentary focuses on particular genres of movies made in thee 1950s. While most of Hollywood made films promoting the values of the day, many reflected an underlying rebelliousness or the foreboding that came from the fear of communism and the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Films like The Wild Ones and Rebel Without A Cause challenge the conformity of the Eisenhower era and a restlessness of youth that far pre-dated the youth movement of the 1960s. While science fiction films often represented the paranoia of invasion and the unknown, some films challenged traditional American beliefs. In The Thing, for example, the traditional movie response of trying to destroy the alien is challenged by promoting the importance of taking a more scientific approach and trying to learn from the creature. In films like Giant, the traditional role of women is questioned.—garykmcd
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By what name was Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties (2001) officially released in Canada in English?
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