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Benjamin L. Alpers Happy Days (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Happy Days : Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America
- Publication Name
- Happy Days
- Title
- Happy Days
- Subtitle
- Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 197883053X
- EAN
- 9781978830530
- ISBN
- 9781978830530
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Genre
- History
- Release Year
- 2024
- Release Date
- 12/01/2024
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 11.1 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Topic
- Historiography, United States / 20th Century, Modern / 20th Century, United States / General
- Number of Pages
- 238 Pages
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After the techno-futurism of the 1950s and the utopian 1960s vision of a "great society," the 1970s saw Americans turning to the past as a source for both nostalgic escapism and serious reflection on the nation's history. While some popular works like Grease presented the relatively recent past as a more innocent time, far away from the nation's post-Vietnam, post-Watergate malaise, others like Roots used America's bicentennial as an occasion for deep soul-searching. Happy Days investigates how 1970s popular culture was obsessed with America's past but often offered radically different interpretations of the same historical events and icons. Even the figure of the greaser, once an icon of juvenile delinquency, was made family-friendly by Henry Winkler's Fonzie at the same time that he was being appropriated in more threatening ways by punk and gay subcultures. The cultural historian Benjamin Alpers discovers similar levels of ambivalence toward the past in 1970s neo-noir films, representations of America's founding, and neo-slave narratives by Alex Haley and Octavia Butler. By exploring how Americans used the 1970s to construct divergent representations of their shared history, he identifies it as a pivotal moment in the nation's ideological fracturing.
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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10
197883053x
ISBN-13
9781978830530
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26060635197
Product Key Features
Book Title
Happy Days : Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Historiography, United States / 20th Century, Modern / 20th Century, United States / General
Publication Year
2024
Genre
History
Number of Pages
238 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
11.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
E169
Grade from
Eleventh Grade
Reviews
In a lucid and entertaining volume, intellectual historian Ben Alpers' has offered us a rich and much-needed analysis of a decade too often portrayed as an 'age of innocence' that gave way to the more troubled 1960s and 1970s. Delivering nuanced readings of music, film, television, and popular politics, Alpers delivers not just a fresh take on the 1950s, but also demonstrates that nostalgia is a form of popular historical thinking, permitting Americans to accommodate the present by way of the past.
Table of Content
Introduction 1. "Where Were You in '62?": The Long Fifties and Nostalgia in Seventies Culture 2. Rip van Marlowe: Seventies Noir and the Pre-Sixties Past 3. "A Committee of 215 Million People": Celebrating the Bicentennial in the Wake of the Sixties 4. Family Stories and the African American Past in Alex Haley's Roots and Octavia Butler's Kindred Afterword Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2024
Lccn
2023-018240
Dewey Decimal
973.92
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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