Happy days : images of the pre-sixties past in seventies America /

"The 1970's are frequently seen as a watershed period, an era from which sources of 21st-century American culture began to flow. But the 1970's are also seen as a particularly backward-looking time, seen by many critics as morbidly nostalgic for times before the wrenching changes that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alpers, Benjamin Leontief, 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2024]
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Table of Contents:
  • "Where were you in '62?" : the long fifties and nostalgia in seventies culture
  • Rip van Marlowe : seventies noir and the pre-sixties past
  • "A committee of 215 Million people" : celebrating the bicentennial in the wake of the sixties
  • Family stories and the African American past in Alex Haley's Roots and Octavia Butler's Kindred.