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020 _a9781501331442
020 _z9781501331411 (hardback)
020 _z9781501331428 (PDF)
020 _z9781501331435 (electronic book)
041 _aeng
100 _aBevan, Alex,
_d1982-
_eauthor.
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245 _aThe aesthetics of nostalgia TV :
_bproduction design and the boomer era /
_cAlex Bevan.
246 3 _aAesthetics of nostalgia television
250 _aFirst edition.
260 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bBloomsbury Academic,
_c2019.
300 _a1 online resource (xvi, 248 pages) :
_billustrations
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"The Aesthetics of Nostalgia TV explores the aesthetic politics of nostalgia for 1950s and 60s America on contemporary television. Specifically, it looks at how nostalgic TV production design shapes and is shaped by larger historical discourses on gender and technological change, and America's perceived decline as a global power. Alex Bevan argues that the aesthetics of nostalgic TV tell stories of their own about historical decline and progress, and the place of the baby boomer television suburb in American national memory. She contests theories on nostalgia that see it as stagnating, regressive, or a reversion to outdated gender and racial politics, and the technophobic longing for a bygone era; and, instead, argues nostalgia is an important form of historical memory and vehicle for negotiating periods of historical transition. The book addresses how and why the shows construct the boomer era as a placeholder for gender, racial, technological, and declensionist discourses of the present. The book uses Mad Men (AMC, 2007-2015), Ugly Betty (ABC, 2006-2010), Desperate Housewives (ABC, 2004-2012), and film remakes of 1950s and 60s family sitcoms as primary case studies"--Bloomsbury Publishing.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bNew York :
_cBloomsbury Publishing,
_d2018.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess limited by licensing agreement.
650 _aNostalgia on television.
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650 _aTelevision programs
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States.
_918445
650 _aTelevision
_xArt direction.
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650 _2Television
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.5040/9781501331442?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
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999 _c13292
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