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History of civilization --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology of culture --- United States --- American Dream --- American national characteristics --- Amerikaans volkskarakter --- Amerikaanse Droom --- Caractéristiques nationales américaines --- National characteristics [American ] --- Rève américain --- Volkskarakter [Amerikaans ] --- -United States --- -National characteristics, American --- Social values --- -#SBIB:033.AANKOOP --- #SBIB:97G --- 973 --- Values --- Civilization --- -Philosophy --- Politics and government --- Geschiedenis van Noord-Amerika --- Geschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten van Amerika (USA) --- 973 Geschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten van Amerika (USA) --- National characteristics, American. --- Philosophy. --- National characteristics, American --- #SBIB:033.AANKOOP --- Idealism, American --- Materialism --- Success --- Philosophy --- United States of America
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This work discusses the reality of the ambiguous but galvanizing concept of the American Dream, a concept that for better and worse has proven to be amazingly elastic and durable for hundreds of years and across racial, class, and other demographic lines.
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Sensing the Past explores perennial themes in American culture as manifested through the works of six of Hollywood's biggest movies stars: Clint Eastwood, Daniel Day-Lewis, Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, and Jodie Foster.
Historical films --- Motion pictures and history. --- History and motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and history --- History --- History and criticism. --- United States --- In motion pictures.
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"1980 was a turning point in American history. When the year began, it was still very much the 1970s, with Jimmy Carter in the White House, a sluggish economy marked by high inflation, and the disco still riding the airwaves. When it ended, Ronald Reagan won the presidency in a landslide, inaugurating a rightward turn in American politics and culture. We still feel the effects of this tectonic shift today, as even subsequent Democratic administrations have offered neoliberal economic and social policies that owe more to Reagan than to FDR or LBJ. To understand what the American public was thinking during this pivotal year, we need to examine what they were reading, listening to, and watching. 1980: American Culture in Transition puts the news events of the era-everything from the Iran hostage crisis to the rise of televangelism-into conversation with the year's popular culture. Separate chapters focus on the movies, television shows, songs, and books that Americans were talking about that year, including both the biggest hits and some notable flops that failed to capture the shifting zeitgeist. As he looks at the events that had Americans glued to their screens, from the Miracle on Ice to the mystery of Who Shot JR, cultural historian Jim Cullen garners surprising insights about how Americans' attitudes were changing as they entered the 1980s"--
Mass media --- Popular culture --- History --- United States --- Social life and customs --- Politics and government --- Intellectual life --- liberal social libertarianism, libertarianism, american politics, 1980s politics, reaganomics, conservative economic libertarianism, television history, 1980s culture, 1980s political scene, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan Presidency, the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin Wall, the Berlin Wall, global tension, nuclear arms race, conservative politics, the eighties, eighties culture, eighties pop music, eighties tv shows, 1980s movies, 1980s Hollywood, televangelism, 80s windbreakers, 80s fashion, 80s fashion trends.
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This book explores the intersection of two topics and their impact on American culture. One is an idea: the American Dream, one of the most resonant - and controversial - themes of U.S. History. The other is a person: Martin Scorsese, a man widely regarded as the greatest living American director. The American Dream is something that a great many American artists have chosen (or perhaps have felt forced) to engage, and the highly articulate Scorsese has referred to it many times over the course of his life. But neither he or the many scholars who have explored his work have traced the Dream in anything like a systematic way. It has certainly been a means for him to understand his own life-he is, as much as any American who has ever lived, is a poster child for upward mobility-but it also functions as a lens through which he has filtered a variety of characters and situations over the course of his large body of work. One reason why Scorsese's engagement with the Dream, however implicit, merits a book-length study is the complexity of his understanding of it. He's no mere cheerleader; as he told one critic, 'The American Dream, if you dream it intensely enough, will make you nuts.' This is something he experienced first-hand during a dark period in his life during the late 1970s. But he understands its appeal for the gangster and the priest, the hustler and the housewife. In Scorsese's art, the American Dream is animated by a potent friction between two competing forces: provincialism and cosmopolitanism. Scorsese is the product of a small, insular world, and he has spent life recreating them in one form or another. And yet his artistry rests on talents that were quickly recognized by a wider world, and has spent most of his life working with a global set of collaborators-actors, writers, set designers, location managers and the like-who have cast their lot with him in the process of producing some of the most significant cinematic art of last half-century. Literally and figuratively, Scorsese sees the American Dream in uniquely powerful ways. And he allows us to see the Dream that way, too. Fast-paced, instructive, and resonant, Martin Scorsese and the American Dream illuminates an important dimension of our national life and how a great artist has brought it into focus.
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"History is a subject we all learn in school, some of us with more enthusiasm than others. But the way most of us know history-experience it, absorb it, apply its lessons to make sense of our everyday lives-is through popular culture. And no medium of popular culture has been more pervasive in offering Americans a vision of their country in the past century than television. Television has played an especially important role in the interpretation-and reinterpretation-of collective memory, which is to say the events that were experienced first- or second-hand but which have since receded into the past. From Memory to History examines the way TV shows of the past fifty years have depicted US society in the last century. The book examines how a series of events in the past hundred years-from the advent of Prohibition to the advent of the Internet-were portrayed in some of the most beloved shows of all time, among them The Waltons, M*A*S*H, and Mad Men. But the book does more than that.It also explains how any given TV show is at least as important a historical artifact of the time it was made as it is the time it depicts. So it is, for example, that we see how That 70 Show reveals a lot about the 1990s in the process of telling a story about the 1970s. Or How Hogans Heroes, a (somewhat bizarre, in retrospect) sitcom about a German concentration camp in World War II, almost despite itself, reveals underlying anxieties about Civil Rights and the Vietnam War in its hermetically sealed episodes. Or how The Americans valorizes the outcome of a Cold War that was a good deal more uncertain than it was in the 1980s, when the series is set. Each of the books seven chapters offers context for a shows setting, the shows interpretive argument in the moment it was made, and how both look from the perspective of the 2020s. Here, truly, is history in three dimensions.Lively, informative, and incisive, From Memory to History will help you look at television, the American Century, and the times in which you are living in an intriguing new light"--
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The highly acclaimed first edition of The Art of Democracy won the 1996 Ray and Pat Brown Award for ""Best Book,"" presented by the Popular Culture Association.
Popular culture --- History. --- United States --- Civilization.
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