Prof. Peter Stanfield’s ‘The Cool and the Crazy’

Prof. Peter Stanfield’s new book ‘Pop Fifties Cinema: The Cool and the Crazy’ has received a brilliant review from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Delivering sharp critical insights in jazzy, accessible prose, The Cool and the Crazy offers an appreciation of cinema as a ‘pop’ medium, unabashedly derivative, faddish, and ephemeral. By studying these long-burst bubbles of 1950s ‘pop,’ Stanfield reveals something new about what films do and the pleasures they provide.

Read the full review here.

Purchase your copy of ‘The Cool and the Crazy’ here.