A Summer Place
Frigid women. Manipulative wives. Bad mothers. Dumb blondes. Alcoholism. Failing marriages. Furtive sex. Before Mad Men revived these retro conventions and somehow made them hip, they were just tawdry.
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Jun 14, 2014 08:56AM
A real horror show, the 50s.
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In many ways, but it provided so much to react against. I am pondering an essay on what I see as a particularly creative expression of dissatisfaction with 50s American complacency and hypocrisy: The Spaghetti Western.
Missed your comment earlier. Love the idea!
