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The Aesthetics of Nostalgia TV - Production Design and the Boomer Era (Hardcover)
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The Aesthetics of Nostalgia TV - Production Design and the Boomer Era (Hardcover)
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The Aesthetics of Nostalgia TV explores the aesthetic politics of
nostalgia for 1950s and 60s America on contemporary television.
Specifically, it looks at how nostalgic TV production design shapes
and is shaped by larger historical discourses on gender and
technological change, and America's perceived decline as a global
power. Alex Bevan argues that the aesthetics of nostalgic TV tell
stories of their own about historical decline and progress, and the
place of the baby boomer television suburb in American national
memory. She contests theories on nostalgia that see it as
stagnating, regressive, or a reversion to outdated gender and
racial politics, and the technophobic longing for a bygone era;
and, instead, argues nostalgia is an important form of historical
memory and vehicle for negotiating periods of historical
transition. The book addresses how and why the shows construct the
boomer era as a placeholder for gender, racial, technological, and
declensionist discourses of the present. The book uses Mad Men
(AMC, 2007-2015), Ugly Betty (ABC, 2006-2010), Desperate Housewives
(ABC, 2004-2012), and film remakes of 1950s and 60s family sitcoms
as primary case studies.
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