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Revisiting and Revising the Fifties in Contemporary US Popular Culture

Self-Reflexivity, Melodrama, and Nostalgia in Film and Television

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Authors:
  1. Eleonora Ravizza

    1. Leipzig, Germany

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  • a cultural- and literary-studies investigation

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Happy Days Are Here Again

    • Eleonora Ravizza
    Pages 1-6

  3. The Fifties: Constructing American Cultural Identity

    • Eleonora Ravizza
    Pages 7-24

  4. Fifties Self-Reflexivity: Pleasure, Media, and Cultural Politics

    • Eleonora Ravizza
    Pages 25-86

  5. The Melodramatic Mode: Suffering Bodies and Troubled Minds

    • Eleonora Ravizza
    Pages 87-149

  6. The Politics of Queer Nostalgia

    • Eleonora Ravizza
    Pages 151-202

  7. Conclusion

    • Eleonora Ravizza
    Pages 203-205

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 207-229
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About this book

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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Authors and Affiliations

  • Leipzig, Germany

    Eleonora Ravizza

About the author

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.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Revisiting and Revising the Fifties in Contemporary US Popular Culture

  • Book Subtitle: Self-Reflexivity, Melodrama, and Nostalgia in Film and Television

  • Authors: Eleonora Ravizza

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-61874-5

  • Publisher: J.B. Metzler Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-61873-8Published: 26 May 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-61874-5Published: 25 May 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 229

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Popular Culture , American Culture, Cultural Studies

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