Revisiting And Revising The Fifties In Contemporary Us Popular Culture

Author : Eleonora Ravizza
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3662618745
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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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. ​

Author : Christine Sprengler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190067349
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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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"--

Author : David Halberstam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fifties written by David Halberstam and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louis Sachar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1526622068
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sideways Stories From Wayside School written by Louis Sachar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a terrible mistake. Instead of having thirty classrooms side by side, Wayside School is thirty storeys high! (The builder said he was sorry.) Perhaps that's why all sorts of strange and unusual things keep happening – especially in Mrs Jewls's classroom on the very top floor. There's the terrifying Mrs Gorf, who gets an unusually fruity comeuppance; Terrible Todd, who always gets sent home early; and Mauricia, who has a strange ice-cream addiction. Meanwhile, John can only read upside down, and Leslie is determined to sell her own toes. From top to bottom, Wayside is packed with quirky and hilarious characters who are all brought to life in this new edition with delightful illustrations by Aleksei Bitskoff throughout. This is an unmissable, irrepressible story of mixed-up mayhem from Louis Sachar, the bestselling author of Holes.

Author : Michael E. Staub
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231123747
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Torn at the Roots written by Michael E. Staub and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating history of the genesis of the backlash against Jewish liberalism, Staub recounts the history American Jews who advocated Palestinian statehood, showing how ideology has split the Jewish community.

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374706029
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assembling California written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect—in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth—and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands.

Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 1667623680
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book BRIDESHEAD REVISITED;THE SACRED AND PROFANE MEMORIES OF CAPTAIN CHARLES RYDER written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Noel Brown
Publisher : Traditions in American Cinema
ISBN 13 : 9781399508070
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Hollywood Animation written by Noel Brown and published by Traditions in American Cinema. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysing dozens of key animated films, the book examines the emergence of new genres and stylistic approaches, as well as the ongoing blurring of boundaries between animation and live-action and explores how animation in the United States both responds to and recapitulates the values, beliefs, hopes and fears of the nation.

Author : Sina A. Nitzsche
Publisher : Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner
ISBN 13 : 9783837653113
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetic Resurrection written by Sina A. Nitzsche and published by Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the Bronx in American popular culture traces a complex dialogue on its past, present, and future. Sina Nitzsche argues that popular culture functioned as a poetic resurrection of the Bronx, which preceded, promoted, and facilitated the spatial revival of the borough and inspired other distressed communities across the U.S.

Author : Hanne Laceulle
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839444225
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aging and Self-Realization written by Hanne Laceulle and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominant cultural narratives about later life dismiss the value senior citizens hold for society. In her cultural-philosophical critique, Hanne Laceulle outlines counter narratives that acknowledge both potentials and vulnerabilities of later life. She draws on the rich philosophical tradition of thought about self-realization and explores the significance of ethical concepts essential to the process of growing old such as autonomy, authenticity and virtue. These counter narratives aim to support older individuals in their search for a meaningful age identity, while they make society recognize its senior members as valued participants and moral agents of their own lives.