Foster Hirsch, author portrait
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Foster Hirsch

FOSTER HIRSCH is a professor of film at Brooklyn College and the author of sixteen books on film and theater, including Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King, The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir, and A Method to Their Madness: The History of the Actors Studio. He lives in New York City.
Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties
Show Boat
Otto Preminger

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Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties
Show Boat
Otto Preminger

Foster Hirsch discusses Hollywood’s most turbulent decade – the fifties

Hollywood in the 1950s was a period when the film industry both set conventions and broke norms and traditions—from Cinerama, CinemaScope, and VistaVision to the epic film and lavish musical. It was a decade that saw the rise of the anti-hero; the smoldering, the hidden, and the unspoken; teenagers gone wild in the streets; the

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