Brian Cogan, Thom Gencarelli

Baby Boomers and Popular Culture

An Inquiry into America's Most Powerful Generation

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Produktbeschreibung

The Boomers are the generation that changed everything, from economics to politics to popular culture. This book examines the myriad ways and long-reaching consequences of the now fully "grown up" Baby Boomer generation on America. Once upon a time, the members of the Baby Boomer generation were young, idealistic, and hungry to change the world. And they did create sweeping, irreversible changes throughout American society-but probably not in the ways their younger selves imagined they would. Now that the Boomers are in their late-adult or retirement years, their tremendous legacy can clearly be perceived. In retrospect, the paths the members of this generation took to come to power-and how they came to terms with that power-are also apparent. This single-volume work supplies a broad yet detailed critical guide to the Boomer Generation, containing essays on key people, moments, and phenomena not only during the Boomers' 1960s heyday but also their extensive influences on American culture decades afterward. The contributors address key topics such as the rise of feminism; Civil Rights; the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement; the Beatles, the Grateful Dead, and rock 'n roll; gay rights; idealism, narcissism, and materialism; the influence of television on America, and vice versa; and the transition of Boomers from being "Yippies" to "Yuppies." This work is an ideal text for students in undergraduate or graduate courses in television studies, media studies, cultural studies, and American studies; and is highly appropriate as a supplemental text in literature, history, and philosophy surveys.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 836g
• ISBN-13: 9780313398865
• ISBN-10: 0313398860
• Artikelnr.: 40788696

Autorenporträt

Brian Cogan, PhD, is associate professor and chair in the Department of Communications at Molloy College, Rockville Centre, NY. Thom Gencarelli, PhD, is associate professor and the founding chair of the Communication Department at Manhattan College in Riverdale, NY.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Brian Cogan and Thom Gencarelli PART 1: POLITICS 1. From
Camelot to Watergate: Ten Years That Changed the Politics of Boomer Culture
William M. Knoblauch ?2. The Whole World Is Watching: The SDS and Student
Movement of the 1960s Ed Tywoniak 3. Breaking Down Doors: The Stonewall
Riots and LGBT Rights Anastacia Kurylo 4. Wearing Members Only Jackets:
Baby Boomers and the Shift from Sharing in to Buying into Community Todd
Kelshaw 5. Boomers in the Global Village Michael Grabowski PART 2:
TELEVISION AND FILM 6. Let the Games Begin: Baby Boomers, Capitalist
Ideology, and the Containment of Gender in Sports Television Cheryl A.
Casey 7. "And Now Bringing You the Good Life-A Word from Our Sponsors": The
Changing Face of Television Advertising from the Sixties to the Present Day
Rebecca Kern 8. Moving with the Pictures: Film Viewing across the Boomer
Era Sheila J. Nayar 9. Chilling to The Big Chill: Representations of
Boomers in Movies Robert Hensley-King 10. The New Horror Movie Todd K.
Platts 11. Rock Music on Film: A Selective Chronology Sarah Boslaugh PART
3: POPULAR MUSIC 12. "It's Only Rock-'n'-Roll": The Rise of the
Contemporary Popular Music Industry as a Defining Factor in the Creation of
Boomer Culture Thom Gencarelli 13. "In My Life": The Transformative Power
of Music and Media during the Rebellions of the 1960s Robert Albrecht 14.
"Love Is All You Need": Why There Will Never Be Another Beatles Phil Rose
15. Bob Dylan and Spectacle Culture: Yesterday and Today Salvatore J.
Fallica 16. "Come See about Me": Why the Baby Boomers Liked Stax but Loved
Motown Gary Kenton PART 4: LITERATURE 17. Reading the Boomers' Reading:
What Did They Read? Who Did They Read? Who Wrote about Them? David Linton
18. Equipment for Living: The Popularity and Use of Second-Wave Feminist
Literature among Baby Boomers Kim Trager Bohley 19. "After Life, the
Magazine, the Splintering of the Categories: Boomers as a Target Audience"
(including "Mau-Mau-ing the Press: The Rise of 'New' Journalism," "Rolling
Stone: The Magazine That Marked a Generation," and "Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese,
and the 'New Journalism' as Literature") Brian Cogan 20. Soul on Ice: The
Rise of Minority Literature Christopher Allen Varlack 21. The Baby Boom,
the Bomb, and Outer Space: Growing Up in a Science Fiction World Lance
Strate 22. Marshall McLuhan and the Making of a Countercultural Generation
James C. Morrison Index About the Editors and Contributors