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In six pages this paper explores how American culture during the year 1951 is reflected in this book and film released that year. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.
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United States into "the most powerful nation on earth," a global superpower (Young and Young 3). Although the decade known as the Fifties is viewed in retrospect as a
time of conformity and complacence, there was an undercurrent of uncertainty due to world events, rapidly changing technology, and various social issues that triggered increasing rebellion (Young and Young 3).
The America of 1951 was at an important crossroads that manifested itself in popular culture. Television was becoming the most important source of entertainment and information with about
10 million TVs inside American households. But people were still reading books and going to movies, and were particularly drawn to more racy or controversial subjects that were not
being featured on family-friendly television. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that James Jones novel From Here to Eternity, showcasing the lives and loves of US Army soldiers in
the G Company stationed in Diamond Head, Hawaii just prior to the invasion of Pearl Harbor, became a huge success, selling 3 million copies in that year. In 858
pages, From Here to Eternity chronicled the exploits of Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt, First Sgt. Milt Warden, and Pvt. Angelo Maggio in explicit language and vivid descriptions of sexuality
that were shocking within the conservative cultural context of the period (Prescott 159-160). Similarly, George Stevens social drama A Place in the Sun, loosely based on Theodore Dreisers 1925
novel An American Tragedy, examined the taboo topic of premarital sex in the class-influenced love triangle of George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), Angela Vickers (Elizabeth Taylor) and Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters)
that titillated particular young American filmgoers. This novel and film reflected 1951 popular culture in terms of the way each portrayed topical social issues that were largely influenced the
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