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OverviewThe 1950s as a cultural concept has surged with astonishing force over the last half century. Cultural and political investment in the postwar era has been heavily determined by the desires, anxieties, ideologies, and technologies of the contexts in which they surface. In this book author Christine Sprengler explores how contextualizing factors shaped the 1950s in different ways, and how cinematic representations spearheaded, challenged, or intervened in our cultural memories of the era.Fractured Fifties: The Cinematic Periodization and Evolution of a Decade presents a two-pronged argumentDL that cinema helped define the 1950s by contributing in considerable and meaningful ways to the process of periodization and subsequently a common conception of the decade, and that cinema itself has fractured our understanding of the 1950s. Fractured Fifties challenges a reductive and fairly cohesive set of tropes with a complex amalgam of representations that also intervene in debates about historiography, historicity, cultural memory, mediation, nostalgia, and periodization. Ultimately, Sprengler posits that cinema has complicated our sense of the 1950s, yielding in the process a series of 1950s types or kinds, (e.g., The Leave it to Beaver Fifties, The Jukebox Fifties, and The Cold War Fifties, The Retromediated Fifties) as well as a wealth of critical insights into myriad pasts, presents, and the evolving relationships between them. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Christine Sprengler (Professor of Art History, Professor of Art History, Western University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.513kg ISBN: 9780190067342ISBN 10: 0190067349 Pages: 268 Publication Date: 10 July 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Theory and History (of a Past Future) Chapter 1: Periodization, Cinema, and the Decade Chapter 2: Futuristic Fifties Part Two: Foundational Fractures Chapter 3: The Leave it to Beaver Fifties Chapter 4: The Jukebox Fifties Chapter 5: The Cold War Fifties Part Three: Liminal Fractures Chapter 6: The Retromediated Fifties: Film and Photography Chapter 7: The Fifties Reframed: Borders and Boundaries Conclusion Bibliography IndexReviews13/03/2023 Alternative NY C Sales C 01/07/2023 81.00 AP JFC HBLW3 APF Author InformationChristine Sprengler is Professor of Art History at Western University and the recipient of the Graham and Gale Wright Distinguished Scholar Award. She is the author of Screening Nostalgia and Hitchcock and Contemporary Art, as well as essays on cultural memory and nostalgia, cinematic installation art, and the relationship between cinema and the visual arts. Her current research explores artists' critical interventions in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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