Happy Days : Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alpers, Benjamin L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nineteen seventies.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Happy Days: Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America by Benjamin L. Alpers examines the nostalgia for the 1950s and earlier periods that permeated American culture in the 1970s. The book explores how this yearning for the past was manifested in various forms of media, including film, television, and literature. Alpers investigates the cultural and historical factors that led to this retrospective fascination, highlighting the ways in which Americans sought to understand and cope with the social and political changes of the 1960s by looking back to seemingly simpler times. The author also discusses significant works and figures of the era, such as Joan Didion and George Lucas, to illustrate the broader cultural trends. This book is intended for readers interested in American cultural history, particularly those studying the dynamics of nostalgia and its impact on society. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

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

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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ISBN:

9781978830578

1978830572