Revisiting and Revising the Fifties in Contemporary US Popular Culture

Self-Reflexivity, Melodrama, and Nostalgia in Film and Television

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Paperback, blz. | Engels
Springer Berlin Heidelberg | e druk, 2020
ISBN13: 9783662618738
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In this book, Eleonora Ravizza analyzes how contemporary American popular culture has represented and reproduced the fifties. By investigating the cultural work of films and TV series from the last two decades, the book uncovers the inherent limitations of a ‘revisionist’ take on the fifties. Ravizza argues that, due to the visual nature of the fifties—crystallized in American consciousness through the widespread influence of television—most contemporary attempts to rework and rewrite the regressive gender, queer, and racial politics fall short of such a revisionist reevaluation.

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ISBN13:9783662618738
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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<p>The Fifties: Constructing American Identity.- The Melodramatic Mode: Suffering Bodies and Troubled Minds.- &nbsp;Fifties Self-Reflexivity: Pleasure, Media, and Cultural Politics.- <br> The Politics of Queer Nostalgia.</p>

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