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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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.