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The Arts Club of Washington

Cinematography and Literary Committees

present

Author Discussion:

Foster Hirsch

"Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties"

The Collapse of the Studio System,

the Thrill of Cinerama,

and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher–Television!

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 sacred and the profane; the revolution of the Method; the socially conscious; the implosion of the studios; the end of the production code; and the invasion of the ultimate body snatcher: television.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

$10 Members - $15 Non-Member

5:30 p.m. Reception 

6:00 p.m. Discussion

Copies of Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties

 will be available for sale following the discussion.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

FOSTER HIRSCH is a professor of film at Brooklyn College and the author of 16 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.

CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION

Film fans are invited to screenings that Professor Hirsch will introduce at the American Film Institute's historic Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland.  

Tickets

Friday, April 5th

6:45 p.m. - Lawrence of Arabia (1962) in 70mm

Saturday, April 6th

12:00 p.m. - Silverlode (1954) in 35mm

12:50 p.m. - Born Yesterday (1950)

4:50 p.m. - The Searchers (1956)

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