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This compelling coming-of-age novel explores the search for identity, love, friendship, and home, and celebrates the magic and mystery that exist in even the most ordinary places.
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Civilization, Modern --- Nineteen seventies --- Nineteen eighties --- Forecasting
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Fans and scholars have long regarded the 1980s as a significant turning point in the history of comics in the United States, but most critical discussions of the period still focus on books from prominent creators such as Frank Miller, Alan Moore, and Art Spiegelman, eclipsing the work of others who also played a key role in shaping comics as we know them today. The Other 1980s offers a more complicated and multivalent picture of this robust era of ambitious comics publishing. The twenty essays in The Other 1980s illuminate many works hailed as innovative in their day that have nonetheless fallen from critical view, partly because they challenge the contours of conventional comics studies scholarship: open-ended serials that eschew the graphic-novel format beloved by literature departments; sprawling superhero narratives with no connection to corporate universes; offbeat and abandoned experiments by major publishers, including Marvel and DC; idiosyncratic and experimental independent comics; unusual genre exercises filtered through deeply personal sensibilities; and oft-neglected offshoots of the classic “underground” comics movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The collection also offers original examinations of the ways in which the fans and critics of the day engaged with creators and publishers, establishing the groundwork for much of the contemporary critical and academic discourse on comics. By uncovering creators and works long ignored by scholars, The Other 1980s revises standard histories of this major period and offers a more nuanced understanding of the context from which the iconic comics of the 1980s emerged.
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Art, Modern --- Art, Modern. --- Nineteen eighties --- In art --- 1900-1999.
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Javed, a British teen of Pakistani descent, is growing up in England in 1987. Amidst the racial and economic turmoil of the times, he writes poetry as a means to escape the intolerance of his hometown and the inflexibility of his traditional father. But when he is introduced to the music of 'the Boss,' Javed sees parallels to his working-class life in Springsteen's powerful lyrics.
Pakistanis --- Teenagers --- Music --- Nineteen eighties --- Springsteen, Bruce --- Influence
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Nineteen eighties. --- Années quatre-vingt (Vingtième siècle) --- France --- History --- Politics and government --- Histoire --- Politique et gouvernement --- Années quatre-vingt (Vingtième siècle) --- Nineteen eighties --- 1980s --- 80s (Twentieth century decade) --- Eighties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century
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This book looks beyond the common label of 'Ronald Reagan's America' to chart the complex intersection of cultures in the 1980's. In doing so it provides an insightful account of the major cultural forms of 1980's America - literature and drama; film and television; music and performance; art and photography - and influential texts and trends of the decade: from White Noise to Wall Street, from Silicon Valley to MTV, and from Madonna to Cindy Sherman. A focused chapter considers the changing dynamics of American culture in an increasingly globalised marketplace.
Nineteen eighties. --- Popular culture --- 1980s --- 80s (Twentieth century decade) --- Eighties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- History --- United States --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Social life and customs --- Nineteen eighties --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture
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