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Screening Nostalgia : Populuxe Props and Technicolor Aesthetics in Contemporary American Film /
"In this fascinating in-depth study of the impact of nostalgia on contemporary American cinema, Christine Sprengler unpicks the history of the concept and explores its significance in theory and practice. She offers a lucid analysis of the development of nostalgia in American society and cultur...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York; Oxford :
Berghahn Books,
[2009]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Setting the Stage: The History of Nostalgia
- Chapter 2 The Fifties: Nostalgia's Privileged Object and the Origins of its Dominant American Strain
- Chapter 3 The Nostalgia Film in Practice and Theory
- Chapter 4 Sin City: Reading the Tails of a Populuxe Prop
- Chapter 5 Far From Heaven: Creative Agency, Social History and the Expressive Potential of Costume
- Chapter 6 The Aviator: Deliberate Archaism, Technicolor Aesthetics and Style as Substance
- Conclusion: The Good German and the Good of Nostalgia
- Filmography
- References
- Index