HOLLYWOOD AND THE MOVIES OF THE FIFTIES

Hirsch writes of a culturally transformative decade, one that brought us the rise of the antihero; the smoldering, the hidden, and the unspoken; teenagers gone wild in the streets; the scared and the profane; the revolution of the Method; the socially conscious; the implosion of the studios; and the invasion of the ultimate body snatcher: television. Illus.