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1950 at fifty [videorecording] : a watershed year in American culture and its legacy
Kammen, Michael G.

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Personal author:: Kammen, Michael G.
Title:: 1950 at fifty [videorecording] : a watershed year in American culture and its legacy.
Variant title:: Nineteen fifty at fifty : a watershed year in American culture and its legacy
Publication info:: 2000.
Physical descrip:: 1 videocassette (72 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Series:: ([Provost's lecture series ; 2000-01])
Series:: ([Dorothy J. and Richard W. Burkhardt lecture ; 11th])
General note:: Title spoken on program.
Date/place captured:: Recorded at Ball State University on Oct. 27, 2000.
Summary:: Features a lecture by Cornell University history professor Michael Kammen in which he discusses changes in American culture between 1950 and today. Includes commentary on many topics including the shift from local to national culture, the rise of TV, inflation, increasing openness about sex, anxiety about the possibility of nuclear war, and changes in the arts.
Technical details:: VHS.
Subject:: Social change--United States--History--20th century.
Subject:: Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
Geographic term:: United States--Social life and customs--20th century.
Genre/Form:: Nonfiction films.
Corporate author:: Ball State University.
Series:: Provost's lecture series ; 2000-01
Series:: Dorothy J. and Richard W. Burkhardt lecture ; 11th.
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