Kimberly R. Moffitt, Duncan A. Campbell

1980s

A Critical and Transitional Decade

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Produktbeschreibung

The 1980s: A Critical and Transitional Decade, edited by Kimberly R. Moffitt and Duncan A. Campbell, is a holistic analysis of the decade that focuses on major turning points and developments in literature, entertainment, politics, and social experimentation. This analysis ultimately presents the 1980s as a significant phenomenon in the American landscape. The 1980s is a groundbreaking and stand-alone introductory volume that is unapologetically interdisciplinary in nature and encourages students to explore topics of the decade often overlooked or grouped together with other, more memorable decades such as the 1920s or 1960s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 745g
• ISBN-13: 9780739143148
• ISBN-10: 073914314X
• Artikelnr.: 32466947

Autorenporträt

Kimberly R. Moffitt, Duncan A. Campbell

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Introduction: The 80s as a Decade
Part 3 PART 1:"FREEDOM AND SECURITY GO TOGETHER:" REAGAN'S INFLUENCE DURING
THE 80s
Chapter 4 1. Ronald W. Reagan: Redefining the Presidency
Chapter 5 2. Reagan Revives FBI Spying
Chapter 6 3. The "Real" Right Turn: The Reagan Supreme Court
Chapter 7 4. "Privatizing the Leviathan State: A 'Reaganomic' Legacy"
Chapter 8 5. "Airlines? Lousy Unions." Airline Workers in the Era of
Deregulation and Hostile Takeover
Part 9 PART 2:"YEAH, WELL, HISTORY'S GONNA CHANGE:"UNDERSTANDING THE 80s
BEYOND REAGAN
Chapter 10 6. Triumph of "The Gipper" and the Democratic Party Malaise in
the 1980s
Chapter 11 7. The Christian Right's Traditionalist Jeremiad: Piety and
Politics in the Age of Reagan
Chapter 12 8. New Right, New History, Common Ground: Populism and the Past
Chapter 13 9. An Army of One in 1:18 Scale: The Profit of Patriotism in
G.I. Joe
Chapter 14 10. "Fixing" the Fifties: Alex P. Keaton and Marty McFly
Part 15 PART 3:"TAKE A CHILL PILL, MAN:" COMING TO TERMS WITH THE SOCIAL
ILLS OF THE 80s
Chapter 16 11. How Broadway has Cared: The AIDS Epidemic and the Great
White Way
Chapter 17 12. Counterpublic Art and Social Practice
Chapter 18 13. Date Rape and Sexual Politics
Chapter 19 14. A Culture in Panic: Day Care Abuse Scandals and the
Vulnerability of Children
Chapter 20 15. What's Class Got to Do with It?: Facets of Tracy Chapman
through Song
Part 21 PART 4:"WE ARE THE WORLD:" UNDERSTANDING THE 80s BEYOND AMERICA'S
BORDERS
Chapter 22 16.Reading MTV: The Proliferation of United States Culture in
the Age of Globalization
Chapter 23 17. The United States and Apartheid
Chapter 24 18. The Opening of China and the Evolution of
China-U.S.Cross-Cultural Understanding
Chapter 25 19. U.S. Foreign Policy in Latin America on Film: The Case of
Salvador
Chapter 26 20. Cold War Crucible: The Berlin Wall and American
Exceptionalism
Part 27 PART 5:"TOTALLY AWESOME, 80s:" A DECADE OF ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
Chapter 28 21. Fear of a Black Planet: Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, and
Eddie Murphy and the Globalization of Black Masculinity
Chapter 29 22. Matter and Mammon: Fiction in the Age of Reagan
Chapter 30 23. Alternative for Alternative's Sake: Progressive College
Radio'sProgramming Struggles
Chapter 31 24. "Life in Marvelous Times:" Commemorative Narratives of the
Golden Era in Hip Hop Culture
Chapter 32 25. "Do We Get to Win this Time?" Movies, Mythology, and
Political Culture in "Reagan Country"
Chapter 33 Selected Bibliography
Chapter 34 Index
Chapter 35 About the Contributors