1957
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1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (dominical letter F), the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade.
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Art and culture
- Roth v. United States
- The term psychedelia is coined by psychiatrist Humphry Osmond as an alternative descriptor for hallucinogenic drugs in the context of psychedelic psychotherapy.
Art
- Founding of the Situationist International (1957-1972)
- Vortex: Experiments in Sound and Light
- The Creative Act, speech by Marcel Duchamp
Music
- Stax Records founded
Albums
Singles
Literature
Fiction
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Non-fiction
- Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye
- Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille
- Mythologies by Roland Barthes
- Evergreen Review, Vol. 1 No. 1, 1957
- The Pursuit of the Millennium by Norman Cohn
Film
- I Vampiri by Mario Bava, Riccardo Freda
- The Curse of Frankenstein by Terence Fisher
- A Face in the Crowd by Elia Kazan
- Heaven and Earth Magic by Harry Smith
Births
- January 7 - Nicholson Baker, American novelist.
- March 5 - Mark E. Smith, English singer and songwriter (The Fall) (d. 2018).
- March 20 - Spike Lee, American film director and actor
- Lee Siegel (1957 - )
- Nathalie Du Pasquier (1957 - )
Deaths
- Wilhelm Reich (1897 - 1957)
- Erich von Stroheim (1885 - 1957)
- James Whale (1889 - 1957)
- Erich Auerbach (1892-1957)
- Wyndham Lewis (1882 – 1957)
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