Revisiting and Revising the Fifties in Contemporary US Popular Culture
Self-Reflexivity, Melodrama, and Nostalgia in Film and Television
Autoren: Ravizza, Eleonora
Vorschau- a cultural- and literary-studies investigation
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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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Eleonora Ravizza works at the Institute for American Studies at Leipzig University as a lecturer. Her primary research interests include popular culture and literature, gender, queerness, genre, and psychoanalysis.
- Inhaltsverzeichnis (6 Kapitel)
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Introduction: Happy Days Are Here Again
Seiten 1-6
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The Fifties: Constructing American Cultural Identity
Seiten 7-24
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Fifties Self-Reflexivity: Pleasure, Media, and Cultural Politics
Seiten 25-86
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The Melodramatic Mode: Suffering Bodies and Troubled Minds
Seiten 87-149
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The Politics of Queer Nostalgia
Seiten 151-202
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- Buchtitel
- Revisiting and Revising the Fifties in Contemporary US Popular Culture
- Buchuntertitel
- Self-Reflexivity, Melodrama, and Nostalgia in Film and Television
- Autoren
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- Eleonora Ravizza
- Copyright
- 2020
- Verlag
- J.B. Metzler
- Copyright Inhaber
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-662-61874-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-662-61874-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-662-61873-8
- Auflage
- 1
- Seitenzahl
- VIII, 229
- Anzahl der Bilder
- 1 schwarz-weiß Abbildungen
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