Projections of Passing: Postwar Anxieties and Hollywood Films, 1947-1960

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. Fine. 2016. First Edition. Softcover. [nice clean as-new book]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) From a cover blurb by author Werner Sollors: "Meticulously researched, vividly written, and amply illustrated with crisp digital frame enlargements, [this book] takes the reader through the facets of collective angst that Cold War Hollywood problem films so lavishly represented. Racial passing and civil rights, homosexuality, gender ambiguity and changing roles of masculinity and femininity, and Communist and extraterrestrial infiltration -- all add up to worries about identity, authenticity, performance, and the gnawing question of whether the notion of normalcy in an age of conformity was an illusion." .