{"product_id":"back-to-the-fifties-nostalgia-hollywood-film-and-popular-music-of-the-seventies-and-eighties-9780199356836","title":"Back to the Fifties: Nostalgia, Hollywood Film, and Popular Music of the Seventies and Eighties","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michael D. Dwyer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural \u0026amp; Social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47969553645719,"sku":"9780199356836","price":13565.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199356836.webp?v=1782922331","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/back-to-the-fifties-nostalgia-hollywood-film-and-popular-music-of-the-seventies-and-eighties-9780199356836","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}