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Fractured Fifties - The Cinematic Periodization and Evolution of a Decade
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Fractured Fifties - The Cinematic Periodization and Evolution of a Decade
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The 1950s as a cultural concept has surged with astonishing force
over the last half century. Cultural and political investment in
the postwar era has been heavily determined by the desires,
anxieties, ideologies, and technologies of the contexts in which
they surface. In this book author Christine Sprengler explores how
contextualizing factors shaped the 1950s in different ways, and how
cinematic representations spearheaded, challenged, or intervened in
our cultural memories of the era. Fractured Fifties: The Cinematic
Periodization and Evolution of a Decade presents a two-pronged
argument— that cinema helped define the 1950s by contributing in
considerable and meaningful ways to the process of periodization
and subsequently a common conception of the decade, and that cinema
itself has fractured our understanding of the 1950s. Fractured
Fifties challenges a reductive and fairly cohesive set of tropes
with a complex amalgam of representations that also intervene in
debates about historiography, historicity, cultural memory,
mediation, nostalgia, and periodization. Ultimately, Sprengler
posits that cinema has complicated our sense of the 1950s, yielding
in the process a series of 1950s types or kinds, (e.g., The Leave
it to Beaver Fifties, The Jukebox Fifties, and The Cold War
Fifties, The Retromediated Fifties) as well as a wealth of critical
insights into myriad pasts, presents, and the evolving
relationships between them.
General
Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2023 |
Authors: |
Christine Sprengler
(Professor of Art History)
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
272 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-006735-9 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-19-006735-7 |
Barcode: |
9780190067359 |
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