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Back to the Fifties - Nostalgia, Hollywood Film, and Popular Music of the Seventies and Eighties (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,326
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Back to the Fifties - Nostalgia, Hollywood Film, and Popular Music of the Seventies and Eighties (Paperback): Michael D. Dwyer

Back to the Fifties - Nostalgia, Hollywood Film, and Popular Music of the Seventies and Eighties (Paperback)

Michael D. Dwyer

Series: Oxford Music/Media Series

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Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Hollywood studios and record companies churned out films, albums, music videos and promotional materials that sought to recapture, revise, and re-imagine the 1950s. Breaking from the dominant wisdom that casts the trend as wholly defined by Ronald Reagan's politics or the rise of postmodernism, Back to the Fifties reveals how Fifties nostalgia from 1973 to 1988 was utilized by a range of audiences for diverse and often competing agendas. Films from American Graffiti to Hairspray and popular music from Sha Na Na to Michael Jackson shaped-and was shaped by-the complex social, political and cultural conditions of the Reagan Era. By closely examining the ways that "the Fifties" were remade and recalled, Back to the Fifties explores how cultural memory is shaped for a generation of teenagers trained by popular culture to rewind, record, recycle and replay.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Series: Oxford Music/Media Series
Release date: July 2015
Authors: Michael D. Dwyer (Assistant Professor of Media & Communication)
Dimensions: 235 x 165 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-935684-3
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > General
Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > General
LSN: 0-19-935684-X
Barcode: 9780199356843

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