Daniel Marcus

Happy Days and Wonder Years

The Fifties and the Sixties in Contemporary Cultural Politics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the 21st century, why do we keep talking about the fifties and sixties? In ""Happy Days and Wonder Years"", Daniel Marcus reveals how interpretations of these decades have figured in the cultural politics of the United States since 1970.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 153mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780813533919
• ISBN-10: 0813533910
• Artikelnr.: 21740423

Autorenporträt

Daniel Marcus is an assistant professor in the department of communication at Wayne State University. As a member of the Paper Tiger Television collective, he edited ROAR! The Paper Tiger Guide to Media Activism.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Fifties in the 1970s: Representations in a Cultural Revival
Chapter 2: The Conservative Uses of Nostalgia
Chapter 3: Nostalgia Embodied: Ronald Reagan as Icon
Chapter 4: Popular Culture and the Response to Conservative Nostalgia
Chapter 5: Contests and Contestations: The Sixties Legacy during the
Decline of Reagan
Chapter 6: The Reinflection of the Past: The Presidential Election of 1992
Chapter 7: Elvis Has Left the Building: The Resurgence of the Right
Conclusion
Notes
Index
About the Author