Benjamin L. Alpers

Happy Days

Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America

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Produktbeschreibung

Happy Days investigates how 1970s popular culture was obsessed with America’s past, but offered radically different interpretations of the same historical events and icons. Looking at representations of 1950s teenagers, the noir detective, America’s bicentennial, and neo-slave narratives, Benjamin Alpers examines how American history provoked both nostalgia and deep soul searching. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781978830530
• ISBN-10: 197883053X
• Artikelnr.: 67836861

Autorenporträt

BENJAMIN L. ALPERS is a Reach for Excellence Associate Professor of History in the Honors College at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of  Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture: Envisioning the Totalitarian Enemy, 1920s–1950s.

Inhaltsangabe

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