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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819811603321

Autore

Kaufman Will

Titolo

American culture in the 1970s / / Will Kaufman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-08790-8

9786612087905

0-7486-3153-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Twentieth-century American culture

Disciplina

973

Soggetti

Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century

Nineteen seventies

United States Social life and customs 1971-

United States Civilization 1970-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-224) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Case Studies; Acknowledgements; Chronology of 1970's American Culture; Introduction The Intellectual Context; Chapter 1 Fiction and Poetry; Chapter 2 Television and Drama; Chapter 3 Film and Visual Culture; Chapter 4 Popular Music and Style; Chapter 5 Public Space and Spectacle; Conclusion Rethinking the 1970's; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The 1970's was one of the most culturally vibrant periods in American history. This book discusses the dominant cultural forms of the 1970's - fiction and poetry; television and drama; film and visual culture; popular music and style; public space and spectacle - and the decade's most influential practitioners and texts: from Toni Morrison to All in the Family , from Diane Arbus to Bruce Springsteen, from M.A.S.H. to Taxi Driver and from disco divas to Vietnam protesters. In response to those who consider the seventies the time of disco, polyester and narcissism, this book rewrites the critical....