1954
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The Parker–Hulme murder occurred in Christchurch, New Zealand on June 22; 1954. The story of the murder is said to be loosely adapted into the French film Don't Deliver Us from Evil and more faithfully into Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures. |
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1954 (MCMLIV) is the 954th year of the 2nd millennium, the 54th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1950s decade.
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Art and culture
- Studio One record label founded in Jamaica
- Ford Atmos concept car presented
- Comics Code Authority introduced
- Film Culture magazine launched
- "Une certaine tendance du cinéma français", an essay by French film critic François Truffaut,
- "The Homosexual Villain", an essay by American writer Norman Mailer
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Visual art
- Self portrait as Mona Lisa by Dali
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Literature
- Story of O by Pauline Réage
- Contempt by Alberto Moravia
- The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- I am Legend by Richard Matheson
- Sex in History by Gordon Rattray Taylor
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Film
- Dial M for Murder by Alfred Hitchcock
- Fear by Roberto Rossellini
- Godzilla by Ishirō Honda
- Human Desire by Fritz Lang
- Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome by Kenneth Anger
- Johnny Guitar, directed by Nicholas Ray
- Rear Window, directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- Senso by Luchino Visconti
- Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa
- La Strada by Federico Fellini
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Music
- Le Déserteur by Boris Vian
- I Just Want to Make Love to You by Willie Dixon
- Cucurrucucú paloma by Tomás Méndez
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Births
- Yasuaki Shimizu, Japanese musician
- Larry Levan, American DJ (d. 1992)
- François Kevorkian, French-born American DJ and musician
- Walter Gibbons, American DJ (d. 1994)
- Linval Thompson, Jamaican musician
- Richard Kern, American photographer
- Augustus Pablo, Jamaican musician (d. 1999)
- Cindy Sherman, American artist
- James Cameron, American director
- Mike Kelley, American artist (d. 2012)
- Iain Banks, Scottish writer (d. 2013)
- Bruce Sterling, American writer
- Alfredo de la Fé, American musician
- Hanif Kureishi, Pakistani-British writer
- Coen Brothers, American directors
- Ang Lee, Taiwanese-born American film director
- Alex Cox, British director
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Deaths
- Dziga Vertov (1896 - 1954)
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