1. Cold War Pop Culture
Lecture 6

2. Standard
Trace the origins and geopolitical consequences of the Cold War
Essential Question: ???

3. Conformity in the 1950s Nuclear Families Baby Boom Dr. Benjamin Spock
Traditional
Baby Boom
(1946 – 1964)
30 million babies born
Dr. Benjamin Spock
The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, 1945

4. Television

5. Fast Cars and Freedom Automobile car became status symbol
drive-thru restaurants/movies
garage

6. Pop Culture Project Cold War culture
movies, TV, and literature reflected the Cold War
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Dr. Strangelove
Fail-Safe
“The Crucible”
Rebel without a Cause
combination of patriotism, fear, hope, and prosperity

7. Rock On Rock and Roll rock and roll “borrowed” from Black America
race music
parents worried the music would incite immorality

9. The First Emo Beat Movement
embraced non-conformity and non-materialism
poets, authors, and musicians
criticized of being un-patriotic
precursors to counter-culture of 1960s
Jack Kerouac
On the Road, 1957
Allen Ginsburg
Howl, 1956
William S. Burroughs
Naked Lunch, 1959

10. Youth Rebellion James Dean Elvis Presley Marilyn Monroe
represented teen angst and rebellion
Rebel without a Cause
Elvis Presley
became the first rock and roll superstar
Marilyn Monroe
sexual icon of the 1950s