Fractured fifties

• Verfasst von: Sprengler, Christine [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Fractured fifties
• Titelzusatz: the cinematic periodization and evolution of a decade
• Verf.angabe: Christine Sprengler
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: xiii, 251 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 225-237
• ISBN: 978-0-19-006735-9
• ISBN: 0-19-006735-7
• ISBN: 978-0-19-006734-2
• ISBN: 0-19-006734-9
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780190067342.001.0001
• Schlagwörter: (g)USA / (s)Film / (s)Periodisierung / (z)Geschichte 1950-1959
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Sprengler, Christine: Fractured fifties. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2023
• RVK-Notation: AP 44983
• Sach-SW: Film criticism
• K10plus-PPN: 1837832897

Abstract

"Fractured Fifties: The Cinematic Periodization and Evolution of a Decade presents a two-pronged argument that (1) cinema has helped define the 1950s by contributing in considerable and meaningful ways to the process of periodization and thus a general conception of the decade, and (2) cinema has fractured our sense of the 1950s. It 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. In other words, cinema has fractured 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, etc.) as well as a wealth of critical insights into myriad pasts, presents, and the evolving relationships between them"--