Jim Cullen

1980

America's Pivotal Year

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining how 1980, the year Reagan was elected in a landslide, was a turning point in American history, cultural historian Jim Cullen looks at the year’s most notable movies, television shows, songs, and books to garner surprising insights about how Americans’ attitudes were changing at this pivotal moment.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 159mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781978831179
• ISBN-10: 197883117X
• Artikelnr.: 63368618

Autorenporträt

JIM CULLEN is the author of numerous books, including The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation, Those Were the Days: Why 'All in the Family' Still Matters, and From Memory to History: Television Versions of the Twentieth Century.  He teaches history at the newly-founded upper division of Greenwich Country Day School.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction:  Facing Janus
Chapter 1 / On the Cusp: American Politics and Culture in 1979
Chapter 2 / Wind Shear: The Political Cultures of 1980
Chapter 3 / The Closing of Heaven's Gate: Hollywood in Transition
Chapter 4 / Starting Over: Pop Music's Future Goes Back to the Past
Chapter 5 / Ebb and Flow: Tidal Shifts in Broadcast Television
Chapter 6 / Turning the Page: The Publishing Industry in 1980
Chapter 7 / Inflection Point: Autumn, 1980
Conclusion: Inaugurating the Eighties
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the author          
Index