Author: Mary Lou Widmer
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Keywords: forties, orleans, new
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-05-31
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 158980497X
ISBN-13: 9781589804975

This volume in the series explores the many changes that New Orleanians and their city experienced before, during, and after the trying times of World War II. Mrs. Widmer fondly remembers the ’40s as she examines the city socially, politically, and architecturally and includes a look at popular fads, sports, and other entertainment that boomed during this period in history. She takes a look at the expanding suburbs of New Orleans and the effects that the end of the war had on growth and development in areas such as Gentilly Woods and the lakefront. The book also surveys the fashions of t

Author: Jonathan Walford
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Keywords: new, suits, siren, fashion, forties
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-11-27
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0500514291
ISBN-13: 9780500514290

"A fascinating narrative… Great stories, remarkable acts of patriotism…mark the indomitable spirit of humanity."—BooklistHere is a definitive look at fashion in the 1940s—from French style under the Occupation and the “make do and mend” approach to wartime clothing shortages through the development of faux fabrics, the rise of American fashion houses, and the New Look of the post- war period. The illustrations reveal the wide range of fashions and styles from the 1940s in North America, Europe, Australasia, and Japan. The lively text by fashion specialist Jonathan

Author: John Kobal
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: forties, portraits, star, movie
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1977-06-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0486235467
ISBN-13: 9780486235462

Author: John Howard Reid
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: forties, films, memorable
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2004-10-07
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1411614631
ISBN-13: 9781411614635

What makes a movie memorable? Has it won awards? Is it still constantly aired on television? Did it have an enormous influence in its day? Nearly 100 films of the 1940s are examined in detail, with complete cast, credit and background information. Pictures include "Casablanca", "Meet Me in St Louis", "Yankee Doodle Dandy", "All About Eve", "Cobra Woman", "Laura", "The Three Musketeers", "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", "The Picture of Dorian Gray", "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein", "He Walked By Night", "Forever Amber", "The Paleface", etc.

Author: Michael Carolin
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: forties, thirties, growing, simpler, life
Number of Pages: 50
Published: 2003-12-23
List price: $9.94
ISBN-10: 059529197X
ISBN-13: 9780595291977

At a time when being poor was the norm and neighbors had a meaningful place in what is now referred to as just "the hood," growing up was much simpler. Humor was the narcotic du jour and the poor to be pitied were in China or some other far-off place. Single parent families were almost unheard of. Mothers were homemakers and fathers provided as best they could. Without television or the Internet, radio and a movie matinee would nurture a child’s imagination, providing limitless possibilities. This provided an inexpensive high lost on today’s younger generation. The author wil

Author: Brian Trehearne
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Keywords: transition, poetry, modernist, forties, montreal
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1999-09-04
List price: $72.00
ISBN-10: 0802044522
ISBN-13: 9780802044525

During the Second World War, a number of young Canadian poets converged on Montreal and, in a few years of little-magazine and small-press publication, rewrote the story of modern English-Canadian poetry. The Montreal Forties establishes a new reading of Canadian modernist poetry in this crucial decade, during which the radical impersonality of high-modernist poetics gave way to an ironic expression of the modern individual in years of unexampled geopolitical and private crisis. The book discusses four major English-Canadian poets of the forties; P.K. Page, A.M. Klein, Irving Layton, and Lou

Author: Mary Ellen Sterling
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
Keywords: forties, series, century
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1996-11-01
List price: $11.99
ISBN-10: 1576900266
ISBN-13: 9781576900260

Gain insight into the Forties by looking at the decade’s many struggles and successes. This intriguing book examines the political, economic, social, cultural, scientific, and technological advances of the Forties and introduces students to the individuals who made history in that decade. This book includes a time line, planning guides, personality profiles, curriculum connections, computer applications, and more!