Fractured Fifties
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-006735-9 (ISBN)
Fractured Fifties: The Cinematic Periodization and Evolution of a Decade presents a two-pronged argument— that cinema helped define the 1950s by contributing in considerable and meaningful ways to the process of periodization and subsequently a common conception of the decade, and that cinema itself has fractured our understanding of the 1950s. Fractured Fifties 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. Ultimately, Sprengler posits that cinema has complicated 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) as well as a wealth of critical insights into myriad pasts, presents, and the evolving relationships between them.
Christine Sprengler is Professor of Art History at Western University and the recipient of the Graham and Gale Wright Distinguished Scholar Award. She is the author of Screening Nostalgia and Hitchcock and Contemporary Art, as well as essays on cultural memory and nostalgia, cinematic installation art, and the relationship between cinema and the visual arts. Her current research explores artists' critical interventions in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Introduction
Part One: Theory and History (of a Past Future)
Chapter 1: Periodization, Cinema, and the Decade
Chapter 2: Futuristic Fifties
Part Two: Foundational Fractures
Chapter 3: The Leave it to Beaver Fifties
Chapter 4: The Jukebox Fifties
Chapter 5: The Cold War Fifties
Part Three: Liminal Fractures
Chapter 6: The Retromediated Fifties: Film and Photography
Chapter 7: The Fifties Reframed: Borders and Boundaries
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 15.03.2023 |
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Zusatzinfo | 25 b&w halftones |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 235 x 157 mm |
Gewicht | 399 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-006735-7 / 0190067357 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-006735-9 / 9780190067359 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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