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It got here From the Fifties is an eclectic, witty and insightful choice of essays predicated at the speculation that well known cultural records supply designated insights into the worries, anxieties and needs in their occasions. The essays explore the emergence of "Hammer Horror" and the company's groundbreaking 1958 edition of Dracula; the paintings of well known authors reminiscent of Shirley Jackson and Robert Bloch, and the impact that 50s meals ads had upon the poetry of Sylvia Plath; where of lighting tricks within the decade's technology fiction motion pictures; and Fifties Anglo-American relatives as refracted in the course of the prism of the 1957 movie evening of the Demon.
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22. Thomas Hine, Populuxe (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986), p. 133. 23. W. Shelley Book “Frankenstein” Banned,’ New York Times: 5 September 1955: 9. 24. ‘On the Beach’ (review), Atlantic: August 1957. Unpaginated clipping, author’s collection. 25. ‘On the Beach’ (review), Kirkus Reviews: 1 July 1957. Unpaginated clipping, author’s collection. 32 It Came from the 1950s! 26. ‘On the Beach’ (review), Catholic World: October 1957. Unpaginated clipping, author’s collection. 27. Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights at the Movies (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982), p.
Bradbury’s story was strictly a mood piece and required considerable expansion, not to mention distortion, for the screen. In the film, the dinosaur is freed from an eons-old ice prison by atomic testing, although it is not in any sense an atomic mutation. The reawakened Beast goes on a rampage in lower Manhattan and is finally chased to Coney Island, to be spectacularly destroyed while trapped in the cage-like confines of a roller coaster. Around the time of The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Warner was also developing a film based on an original story by screenwriter George Worthing Yates about giant ants running amok in the New York City subway system.
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