{"product_id":"back-to-the-fifties-michael-d-dwyer-9780199356843","title":"Back to the Fifties: Nostalgia, Hollywood Film, and Popular Music of the Seventies and Eighties","description":"Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Hollywood studios and record companies churned out films, albums, music videos and promotional materials that sought to recapture, revise, and re-imagine the 1950s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBreaking from dominant wisdom that casts the trend as wholly defined by Ronald Reagan's politics or the rise of postmodernism, \u003cem\u003eBack to the Fifties\u003c\/em\u003e reveals how Fifties nostalgia from 1973 to 1988 was utilized by a range of audiences for diverse and often competing agendas. Films from American Graffiti to Hairspray and popular music from Sha Na Na to Michael Jackson shaped - and were shaped by - the complex social, political and cultural conditions of the Reagan Era. By closely examining the ways that \"the Fifties\" was remade and recalled, \u003cem\u003eBack to the Fifties\u003c\/em\u003e explores how cultural memories were fostered for a generation of teenagers trained by popular culture to rewind, record, recycle and replay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael D. Dwyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019935684X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199356843\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/08\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Michael D. Dwyer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054710583551,"sku":"9780199356843","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_63ce7ddf-80c5-4e60-aa4b-2ff67af28b5f.jpg?v=1685031540","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/back-to-the-fifties-michael-d-dwyer-9780199356843","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}