| Description |
1 online resource (220 pages) |
| Contents |
America in the Cold War Years -- The Affluent Society -- Building the Suburban Nation -- Projecting America Through Television -- Gray-Flannel-Suit Nation -- Beats, Rebels and the Other 1950s -- Reshaping Race in America -- The Age of Rock 'n' Roll |
| Summary |
Cold War Narratives reveals the power that representations, understood as both cultural production and public discourse, have held in shaping the imaginaries of early Cold War America. By engaging conflicting accounts of the 1950s as either affirmations of a prosperous and confident nation (in TV shows, popular sociology, and advertising) or as critiques of a society in the throes of fear, rebelliousness, and inequality (in film, literature, and media), this study sheds new light on the ambivalent imaginaries of the American 1950s. Pitting visions of the Red Scare and of nuclear proliferation against narratives of an upbeat nation, eager to suburbanize and to adopt the new ethics of televised consensus, Cold War Narratives illustrates how America's leading metaphors of conformity shaped problematic gender roles, domesticity and consumption in the 1950s. It also exposes how dissenting voices to the Cold War consensus converged around the affirmation of specific identitarian discourses, especially highlighting the agency of youth and of the rising civil rights movement, and the way in which these two entered into unprecedented dialog through new discursive formations such as beat culture and rock 'n' roll |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-214) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Cold War in mass media.
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Discourse analysis, Narrative -- United States
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Conformity -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Dissenters -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
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Civilization
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Cold War (1945-1989) in mass media
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Conformity
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Discourse analysis, Narrative
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Dissenters
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Popular culture
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Social aspects
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139945
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140518
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783035105155 |
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3035105154 |
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