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Revisiting And Revising The Fifties In Contemporary Us Popular Culture
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Book Synopsis Revisiting and Revising the Fifties in Contemporary US Popular Culture by : Eleonora Ravizza
Download or read book Revisiting and Revising the Fifties in Contemporary US Popular Culture written by Eleonora Ravizza and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Fractured Fifties by : Christine Sprengler
Download or read book Fractured Fifties written by Christine Sprengler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fractured Fifties: The Cinematic Periodization and Evolution of a Decade presents a two-pronged argument that (1) cinema has helped define the 1950s by contributing in considerable and meaningful ways to the process of periodization and thus a general conception of the decade, and (2) cinema has fractured our sense of the 1950s. It challenges a reductive and fairly cohesive set of tropes with a complex amalgam of representations that also intervene in debates about historiography, historicity, cultural memory, mediation, nostalgia, and periodization. In other words, cinema has fractured our sense of the 1950s, yielding in the process a series of 1950s types or kinds, (e.g., The Leave it to Beaver Fifties, The Jukebox Fifties, and The Cold War Fifties, The Retromediated Fifties, etc.) as well as a wealth of critical insights into myriad pasts, presents, and the evolving relationships between them"--
Book Synopsis Revisiting the Fifties by : Alice-Cathérine Mackenstein
Download or read book Revisiting the Fifties written by Alice-Cathérine Mackenstein and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Popular Culture in the Fifties by : Frank A. Salamone
Download or read book Popular Culture in the Fifties written by Frank A. Salamone and published by Rlpg/Galleys. This book was released on 2001 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Frank A. Salamone looks at the United States in the 1950s through its popular culture. He examines movies, transportation, television, advertising, music, fads, and all other aspects of the period. Its famous celebrities are placed in context and examined from that perspective.
Book Synopsis Pop Goes the Decade by : Ralph G. Giordano
Download or read book Pop Goes the Decade written by Ralph G. Giordano and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Timeline -- Background and Introduction -- Exploring Popular Culture -- 1. Film -- 2. Television -- 3. Technology -- 4. Music -- 5. Literature -- 6. Sports -- 7. Art and Architecture -- 8. Fashion -- 9. Media and Advertising -- 10. Controversies -- 11. Game Changers -- 12. Legacy -- Bibliography -- Index
Download or read book The Fifties written by David Halberstam and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1994-05-10 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower Dulles, Oppenheimer, MacArthur, Hoover, and Nixon, but also of Harley Earl, who put fins on cars; Dick and Mac McDonald and Ray Kroc, who mass-produced the American hamburger; Kemmons Wilson, who placed his Holiday Inns along the nation's roadsides; U-2 pilot Gary Francis Powers; Grace Metalious, who wrote Peyton Place; and "Goody" Pincus, who led the team that invented the Pill. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Book Synopsis Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture by : Ethan Thompson
Download or read book Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture written by Ethan Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original study, Thompson explores the complicated relationships between Americans and television during the 1950s, as seen and effected through popular humor. Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture documents how Americans grew accustomed to understanding politics, current events, and popular culture through comedy that is simultaneously critical, commercial, and funny. Along with the rapid growth of television in the 1950s, an explosion of satire and parody took place across a wide field of American culture—in magazines, comic books, film, comedy albums, and on television itself. Taken together, these case studies don’t just analyze and theorize the production and consumption of parody and television, but force us to revisit and revise our notions of postwar "consensus" culture as well.
Book Synopsis Popular Culture in America by : Paul Buhle
Download or read book Popular Culture in America written by Paul Buhle and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays discuss television criticism, science fiction, horror, women's humor, sports novels, country music, comic strips, and television programs
Book Synopsis Containing America by : Nathan Abrams
Download or read book Containing America written by Nathan Abrams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The postwar period in America witnessed a tremendous consumer boom that introduced thousands of new items into the mass market. The contributors to Containing America challenge our conceptions of Cold War culture by examining a range of such products - clothes, food, television, magazines, radio, and other forms of entertainment - in order to shed light on how Cold War discourses actually influenced the practices of ordinary behaviour. Their essays address very different sectors of American society - in terms of race, class, ethnicity, sexuality and gender - thus emphasising the multiplicity, diversity, and differing nature of the voices that emerged in cultural production and consumption during the 1950s. Containing America points out directions for further research and provides a fresh approach for scholars, students, and others interested in the culture of the Cold War of the 1950s.
Download or read book The 1950s written by William H. Young and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have the 1950s been overly romanticized? Beneath the calm, conformist exterior, new ideas and attitudes were percolating. This was the decade of McCarthyism, Levittowns, and men in gray flannel suits, but the 1950s also saw bold architectural styles, the rise of paperback novels and the Beat writers, Cinema Scope and film noir, television variety shows, the Golden Age of the automobile, subliminal advertising, fast food, Frisbees, and silly putty. Meanwhile, teens attained a more prominent role in American culture with hot rods, rock 'n' roll, preppies and greasers, and—gasp—juvenile delinquency. At the same time, a new technological threat, the atom bomb, lurked beneath the surface of the postwar decade. This volume presents a nuanced look at a surprisingly complex time in American popular culture.
Book Synopsis Fifties Ethnicities by : Tracy Floreani
Download or read book Fifties Ethnicities written by Tracy Floreani and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifties Ethnicities brings together a variety of texts to explore what it meant to be American in the middle of "America's Century." In a series of comparative readings that draws on novels, television programs, movie magazines, and films, Tracy Floreani crosses generic boundaries to show how literature and mass media worked to mold concepts of ethnicity in the 1950s. Revisiting well-known novels of the period, such as Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, as well as less-studied works, such as William Saroyan's Rock Wagram and C. Y. Lee's The Flower Drum Song (the original source of the more famous Rodgers and Hammerstein musical), Floreani investigates how the writing of ethnic identity called into question the ways in which signifiers of Americanness also inherently privileged whiteness. By putting these novels into conversation with popular media narratives such as I Love Lucy, the author offers an in-depth examination of the boundaries and possibilities for participating in American culture in an era that greatly influenced national ideas about identity. While midcentury mass media presented an undeniably engaging vision of American success, national belonging, and guidelines for cultural citizenship, Floreani argues that minority writers and artists were, at the same time, engaging that vision and implicitly participating in its construction.
Book Synopsis American Culture in the 1950s by : Martin Halliwell
Download or read book American Culture in the 1950s written by Martin Halliwell and published by Twentieth-Century American Cul. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a stimulating account of the dominant cultural forms of 1950s America: fiction and poetry; theatre and performance; film and television; music and radio; and the visual arts. Through detailed commentary and focused case studies of influential texts and events - from Invisible Man to West Side Story, from Disneyland to the Seattle World's Fair, from Rear Window to The Americans - the book examines the way in which modernism and the cold war offer two frames of reference for understanding the trajectory of postwar culture. The two core aims of this volume are to chart the changing complexion of American culture in the years following World War II and to provide readers with a critical investigation of 'the 1950s'. The book provides an intellectual context for approaching 1950s American culture and considers the historical impact of the decade on recent social and cultural developments. Key Features: * Focused case studies featuring key texts, genres, writers, artists and cultural trends* Chronology of 1950s American Culture* Bibliographies for each chapter* over twenty illustrations
Download or read book Time Passages written by George Lipsitz and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The New Yorker Book of the 50s by : The New Yorker Magazine
Download or read book The New Yorker Book of the 50s written by The New Yorker Magazine and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1950s are enshrined in the popular imagination as the decade of poodle skirts and “I Like Ike.” But this was also a complex time, in which the afterglow of Total Victory firmly gave way to Cold War paranoia. A sense of trepidation grew with the Suez Crisis and the H-bomb tests. At the same time, the fifties marked the cultural emergence of extraordinary new energies, like those of Thelonious Monk, Sylvia Plath and Tennessee Williams. The New Yorker was there in real time, chronicling the tensions and innovations that lay beneath the era’s placid surface. In this thrilling volume, classic works of reportage, criticism, and fiction are complemented by new contributions from the magazine’s present all-star line-up of writers, including Jonathan Franzen, Malcolm Gladwell, and Jill Lepore. Here are indelible accounts of the decade’s most exciting players: Truman Capote on Marlon Brando as a pampered young star; Berton Roueché on Jackson Pollock in his first flush of fame. Ernest Hemingway, Emily Post, Bobby Fischer, and Leonard Bernstein are also brought to vivid life in these pages. Among the audacious young writers who began publishing in the fifties was one who would become a stalwart for the magazine for fifty-five years: John Updike. Also featured here are great early works from Philip Roth and Nadine Gordimer, as well as startling poems by Theodore Roethke and Anne Sexton. Completing the panoply are insightful and entertaining new pieces by present day New Yorker contributors examining the 1950s through contemporary eyes.
Book Synopsis Going Home to the Fifties by : Bill Yenne
Download or read book Going Home to the Fifties written by Bill Yenne and published by . This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a celebration of American home life in the fifties, an era when peace and prosperity were a welcome reality rather than a cliche. The two cars in the suburban garage, the mother at home baking cookies for the kids and the family nights around the new television represented a lifestyle of quiet comfort for millions of Americans. For the young parents of the fifties, it was the end of the rainbow. For the children of the baby boom who grew up in this lifestyle, it would become an object of revolt in the late sixties and seventies, but as the baby boomers reach middle age, the fifties are now an object of nostalgia and warm, happy memories. It's time to go home to the fifties. America in the fifties was a time and place that was unique in the history of the world, an era when the technological innovations that we enjoy today -- from television and hi-fi to automatic dryers -- were still new and fresh, and the future was still perceived as being brighter than the present. With this exciting volume, it is now possible to recapture the memories, or to experience that those wonderful days for the first time. Now, more than ever, it's time to go home to the fifties.
Download or read book The Fifties written by Douglas T. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nostalgia, Spotlight on the Fifties by : Michael Anglo
Download or read book Nostalgia, Spotlight on the Fifties written by Michael Anglo and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
