The aesthetics of nostalgia TV : production design and the boomer era /

The aesthetics of nostalgia TV : production design and the boomer era /

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The Aesthetics of Nostalgia TV explores the aesthetic politics of nostalgia for 1950s and 60s America on contemporary television. Specifically, it looks at how nostalgic TV production design shapes and is shaped by larger historical discourses on gender and technological change, and America's p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bevan, Alex, 1982- (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
Subjects:
21st century
Nostalgia on television
Television programs > Social aspects > United States
Television programs > United States > History > 21st century
Television > Art direction
Émissions télévisées > Aspect social > États-Unis
Nostalgie à la télévision
Télévision > Direction artistique
History
Television programs
Television programs > Social aspects
United States
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Touring the Mad Men set
  • Part I: Sets. Chapter 1: TV suburbia and remembering the sitcom set
  • Chapter 2: Office sets and nostalgic modernism in the TV workplace
  • Part II: Props. Chapter 3: Prop talk: a behind the scenes look
  • Chapter 4: Prop stories: media props in narrative context
  • Part III: Costumes. Chapter 5: Making, renting, and telling histories through costume
  • Chapter 6: Costume countermemory: marginalized television voices and Chicana retro
  • Conclusion: Nostalgic failure

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