{"product_id":"the-bad-sixties-kristen-hoerl-9781496817235","title":"The Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2018 Book Award from the American Studies Division of the National Communication Association\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOngoing interest in the turmoil of the 1960s clearly demonstrates how these social conflicts continue to affect contemporary politics. In \u003ci\u003eThe Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements\u003c\/i\u003e, Kristen Hoerl focuses on fictionalized portrayals of 1960s activism in popular television and film. Hoerl shows how Hollywood has perpetuated politics deploring the detrimental consequences of the 1960s on traditional American values. During the decade, people collectively raised fundamental questions about the limits of democracy under capitalism. But Hollywood has proved dismissive, if not adversarial, to the role of dissent in fostering progressive social change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFilm and television are salient resources of shared understanding for audiences born after the 1960s because movies and television programs are the most accessible visual medium for observing the decade's social movements. Hoerl indicates that a variety of television programs, such as \u003ci\u003eFamily Ties\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wonder Years\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLaw and Order\u003c\/i\u003e, along with Hollywood films, including \u003ci\u003eForrest Gump\u003c\/i\u003e, have reinforced images of the \"bad sixties.\" These stories portray a period in which urban riots, antiwar protests, sexual experimentation, drug abuse, and feminism led to national division and moral decay. According to Hoerl, these messages supply distorted civics lessons about what we should value and how we might legitimately participate in our democracy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese warped messages contribute to \"selective amnesia,\" a term that stresses how popular media renders radical ideas and political projects null or nonexistent. Selective amnesia removes the spectacular events and figures that define the late-1960s from their motives and context, flattening their meaning into reductive stereotypes. Despite popular television and film, Hoerl explains, memory of 1960s activism still offers a potent resource for imagining how we can strive collectively to achieve social justice and equality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kristen Hoerl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496817230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496817235\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/26\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2019","brand":"Kristen Hoerl","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46670440104191,"sku":"9781496817235","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-bad-sixties-kristen-hoerl-9781496817235","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}