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Revisiting and Revising the Fifties in Contemporary US Popular Culture
Eleonora Ravizza

Revisiting and Revising the Fifties in Contemporary US Popular Culture

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

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Produktdetails

Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Springer-Verlag GmbH
Erschienen
2020
Sprache
English
Seiten
240
Infos
240 Seiten
210 mm x 148 mm
ISBN
978-3-662-61873-8

Hauptbeschreibung


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.


Inhaltsverzeichnis



The Fifties: Constructing American Identity.- The Melodramatic Mode: Suffering Bodies and Troubled Minds.-  Fifties Self-Reflexivity: Pleasure, Media, and Cultural Politics.-


The Politics of Queer Nostalgia.


Klappentext


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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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.


Über den AutorIn

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.