1980: America's Pivotal Year
Autor Jim Cullenen Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 oct 2022 – vârsta ani
1980 was a turning point in American history. When the year began, it was still very much the 1970s, with Jimmy Carter in the White House, a sluggish economy marked by high inflation, and the disco still riding the airwaves. When it ended, Ronald Reagan won the presidency in a landslide, inaugurating a rightward turn in American politics and culture. We still feel the effects of this tectonic shift today, as even subsequent Democratic administrations have offered neoliberal economic and social policies that owe more to Reagan than to FDR or LBJ. To understand what the American public was thinking during this pivotal year, we need to examine what they were reading, listening to, and watching.
1980: America's Pivotal Year puts the news events of the era—everything from the Iran hostage crisis to the rise of televangelism—into conversation with the year’s popular culture. Separate chapters focus on the movies, television shows, songs, and books that Americans were talking about that year, including both the biggest hits and some notable flops that failed to capture the shifting zeitgeist. As he looks at the events that had Americans glued to their screens, from the Miracle on Ice to the mystery of Who Shot J.R., cultural historian Jim Cullen garners surprising insights about how Americans’ attitudes were changing as they entered the 1980s.
Praise for Jim Cullen's previous Rutgers University Press books:
"Informed and perceptive" —Norman Lear on Those Were the Days: Why All in the Family Still Matters
"Jim Cullen is one of the most acute cultural historians writing today." —Louis P. Masur, author of The Sum of Our Dreams on Martin Scorsese and the American Dream
"This is a terrific book, fun and learned and provocative....Cullen provides an entertaining and thoughtful account of the ways that we remember and how this is influenced and directed by what we watch." —Jerome de Groot, author of Consuming History on From Memory to History
1980: America's Pivotal Year puts the news events of the era—everything from the Iran hostage crisis to the rise of televangelism—into conversation with the year’s popular culture. Separate chapters focus on the movies, television shows, songs, and books that Americans were talking about that year, including both the biggest hits and some notable flops that failed to capture the shifting zeitgeist. As he looks at the events that had Americans glued to their screens, from the Miracle on Ice to the mystery of Who Shot J.R., cultural historian Jim Cullen garners surprising insights about how Americans’ attitudes were changing as they entered the 1980s.
Praise for Jim Cullen's previous Rutgers University Press books:
"Informed and perceptive" —Norman Lear on Those Were the Days: Why All in the Family Still Matters
"Jim Cullen is one of the most acute cultural historians writing today." —Louis P. Masur, author of The Sum of Our Dreams on Martin Scorsese and the American Dream
"This is a terrific book, fun and learned and provocative....Cullen provides an entertaining and thoughtful account of the ways that we remember and how this is influenced and directed by what we watch." —Jerome de Groot, author of Consuming History on From Memory to History
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781978831179
ISBN-10: 197883117X
Pagini: 230
Ilustrații: 15 b&w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.06 kg
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10: 197883117X
Pagini: 230
Ilustrații: 15 b&w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.06 kg
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Notă biografică
JIM CULLEN is the author of numerous books, including The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation, Those Were the Days: Why ‘All in the Family’ Still Matters, and From Memory to History: Television Versions of the Twentieth Century. He teaches history at the newly-founded upper division of Greenwich Country Day School.
Cuprins
Introduction: Facing Janus
Chapter 1 / On the Cusp: American Politics and Culture in 1979
Chapter 2 / Wind Shear: The Political Cultures of 1980
Chapter 3 / The Closing of Heaven’s Gate: Hollywood in Transition
Chapter 4 / Starting Over: Pop Music’s Future Goes Back to the Past
Chapter 5 / Ebb and Flow: Tidal Shifts in Broadcast Television
Chapter 6 / Turning the Page: The Publishing Industry in 1980
Chapter 7 / Inflection Point: Autumn, 1980
Conclusion: Inaugurating the Eighties
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the author
Index
Chapter 1 / On the Cusp: American Politics and Culture in 1979
Chapter 2 / Wind Shear: The Political Cultures of 1980
Chapter 3 / The Closing of Heaven’s Gate: Hollywood in Transition
Chapter 4 / Starting Over: Pop Music’s Future Goes Back to the Past
Chapter 5 / Ebb and Flow: Tidal Shifts in Broadcast Television
Chapter 6 / Turning the Page: The Publishing Industry in 1980
Chapter 7 / Inflection Point: Autumn, 1980
Conclusion: Inaugurating the Eighties
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the author
Index
Recenzii
"With 1980: American Culture in Transition, Jim Cullen has provided important context on the relationship between American political theater in the late 1970s, its correlating representational texts, and concurrent movements in the development of contemporary media industries."
Descriere
Examining how 1980, the year Reagan was elected in a landslide, was a turning point in American history, cultural historian Jim Cullen looks at the year’s most notable movies, television shows, songs, and books to garner surprising insights about how Americans’ attitudes were changing at this pivotal moment.