The 1950s was a golden era for romance films, marked by sweeping dramas, elegant comedies, and heartfelt stories that captured the emotional intensity of genuine love. During this period, Hollywood ...

If you listen to the Left, the 1950s were a decade of boring conformity (the poet Robert Lowell referred to it as “the tranquilized Fifties”) — and the movies of that era, one is told, were a ...

Vernissage, in the 19th century, referred to varnishing the painting, the final step to hanging in the gallery. Varnishing Day meant there were no more changes, the work was complete. Now the word has ...

Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies is a documentary that looks into the world of exploitation films, particularly those from the 1950s and 60s. These were low-budget, outrageous movies ...

It might be tempting to think of the 1950s as a clean and wholesome decade, especially within American culture, given how nostalgically that whole post-World War II period is sometimes depicted.