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It Came From the 1950s! AlsobyDarrylJones STUDYINGPOETRY(withStephenMatterson) HORROR:ATHEMATICHISTORYINFICTIONANDFILM JANEAUSTEN REINTERPRETINGEMMET:ESSAYSONTHELIFEANDLEGACYOFROBERT EMMET M.R.JAMES,COLLECTEDGHOSTSTORIES(edited) AlsobyElizabethMcCarthy FEAR:ESSAYSONTHEMEANINGANDEXPERIENCEOFFEAR(co-editedwith KateHebblethwaite) AlsobyBerniceM.Murphy THESUBURBANGOTHICINAMERICANPOPULARCULTURE SHIRLEYJACKSON:ESSAYSONTHELITERARYLEGACY It Came From the 1950s! Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties Editedby Darryl Jones Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice M. Murphy Introduction,selectionandeditorialmatter©DarrylJones,Elizabeth McCarthyandBerniceM.Murphy2011 Individualchapters©Contributors2011 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6-10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorshaveassertedtheirrightstobeidentified astheauthorsofthisworkinaccordancewiththeCopyright, DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2011by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN PalgraveMacmillanintheUKisanimprintofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanintheUSisadivisionofStMartin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabovecompanies andhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnitedStates, theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-32307-4 ISBN 978-0-230-33723-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230337237 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 DJ: For Margaret and Morgan, with love EMcC: For Paul Cronly BM: For my Godson Ieuan Murphy This page intentionally left blank Contents ListofIllustrations ix Acknowledgements x AbouttheContributors xi Introduction 1 1 A-Bombs,B-Pictures,andC-Cups 17 DavidJ.Skal 2 ‘It’sintheTrees!It’sComing!’NightoftheDemonandthe DeclineandFalloftheBritishEmpire 33 DarrylJones 3 MutantsandMonsters 55 KimNewman 4 ‘Don’tDareSeeItAlone!’TheFiftiesHammerInvasion 72 WayneKinsey 5 Genre,SpecialEffectsandAuthorshipintheCritical ReceptionofScienceFictionFilmandTelevisionduring the1950s 90 MarkJancovichandDerekJohnston 6 Hammer’sDracula 108 ChristopherFrayling 7 FastCarsandBulletBras:TheImageoftheFemale JuvenileDelinquentin1950sAmerica 135 ElizabethMcCarthy 8 ‘ASearchfortheFather-Image’:MasculineAnxietyin RobertBloch’s1950sFiction 158 KevinCorstorphine 9 ‘ReadingherDifficultRiddle’:ShirleyJacksonandLate 1950s’Anthropology 176 DaraDowney vii viii Contents 10 ‘AtMyCookingIFeelItLooking’:Food,Domestic FantasiesandConsumerAnxietyinSylviaPlath’sWriting 198 LornaPiatti-Farnell 11 ‘AllthatZombiesAllow’Re-ImaginingtheFiftiesin FarfromHeavenandFido 216 BerniceM.Murphy Bibliography 234 Filmography 244 Index 250 List of Illustrations 7.1 ‘Boobytrap/SyphillisandGonorrhea’ 140 7.2 ‘Chippers’.WomenwarworkersofMarinshipCorp.,1942 143 7.3 SensationalExposés(April1957) 145 7.4 DforDelinquent,artistunknown(AceD-270,1958) 148 ix

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