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  1. America in the Fifties: A Burning Desire (2001 Video)

    Producer
    Nancy Button
    Subject
    History; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2001 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    In a time of social claustrophobia and pervasive sexual taboos, Hugh Hefner launched ‘Playboy’, the Kinsey Report was published and the Pill first became available, setting the stage for the sexual...

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  2. America in the Fifties: Let’s Play House (2001 Video)

    Producer
    Nancy Button
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    This compilation illustrates the gulf between the roles demanded by the idealised and relentlessly promoted American family and the reality of life. Femininst Betty Friedan gives voice to the many who fail...

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  3. America in the Fifties: Selling the American Way (2001 Video)

    Producer
    Nancy Button
    Subject
    History; Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    Looks at how television was used in the 1950s to sell consumer dreams and political deception in the USA. Rosser Reeves devised advertisements for cigarettes, headache remedies and presidents; Richard Nixon...

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  4. America in the Fifties: The Beat (2001 Video)

    Producer
    Nancy Button
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    Looks at the beginnings of pop music and pop culture, strongly influenced by Elvis Presley and Beat poet Jack Kerouac. However, the country’s underlying racist disregard for civil rights comes to...

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  5. America in the Fifties: The Fear and the Dream (2001 Video)

    Producer
    Nancy Button
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    After World War 2, Americans were gripped by new terrors: rising Soviet military power and the spectre of nuclear annihiliation. Sheltered in rapidly expanding suburbs, newly affluent couples...

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  6. America in the Fifties: The Rage Within (2001 Video)

    Producer
    Nancy Button
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    One of a series documenting American life and culture in the 1950s. The fabled good life delivers peace and plenty to white America, but bypasses black Americans. Depicts the struggle that black Americans...

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  7. America in the Fifties: The Road to the Sixties (2001 Video)

    Producer
    Nancy Button
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    MacDonalds invents fast food and Detroit designer Harley Earl comes up with exuberant cars more like ‘jukeboxes on wheels’; the Russians shock the Americans by beating them into space with Sputnik. The...

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  8. Statue of Liberty, The (2001 Video)

    Director
    Ken Burns
    Producer
    Ken Burns; Buddy Squires
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 58 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    Traces the history of the construction of the Statue of Liberty and the evolution and meaning of the ideal of liberty which it represents. Follows sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s dream of a...

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