Happy Days and Wonder Years : The Fifties and the Sixties in Contemporary Cultural Politics /

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In the twenty-first century, why do we keep talking about the Fifties and the Sixties? The stark contrast between these decades, their concurrence with the childhood and youth of the baby boomers, and the emergence of television and rock and roll help to explain their symbolic power. In Happy Days a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marcus, Daniel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2004]
Temas:
Conservatism > United States.
Nineteen fifties.
Nineteen sixties.
Politics and culture > United States.
Politics and culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Popular culture > History > 20th century > United States.
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Popular culture > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Fifties in the 1970s: Representations in a Cultural Revival
  • 2. The Conservative Uses of Nostalgia
  • 3. Nostalgia Embodied: Ronald Reagan as Icon
  • 4. Popular Culture and the Response to Conservative Nostalgia
  • 5. Contests and Contestations: The Sixties Legacy during the Decline of Reagan
  • 6. The Reinflection of the Past: The Presidential Election of 1992
  • 7. Elvis Has Left the Building: The Resurgence of the Right
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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