Description: Triumph Over Containment offers an uncompromising look at some of the greatest films and directors of the 1950s, from household names like Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick to lesser-known iconoclasts like Samuel Fuller and Ida Lupino. It scours a variety of different genres to find pockets of resistance to the repressive and oppressive norms of Cold War culture.
Review Quotes: "Robert Kolker ingeniously uses George Kennan's Cold War strategy of 'containment' as a metaphor to illuminate the complex interplay between movies and politics in this personal, yet incisive exploration of America's pop culture in the 1950's."--Peter Biskind "author of Seeing is Believing and Easy Riders, Raging Bulls"