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A kinder, gentler America : melancholia and the mythical 1950s
- Title
- A kinder, gentler America : melancholia and the mythical 1950s / Mary Caputi.
- Author
- Caputi, Mary, 1957-
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.
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Details
- Description
- x, 200 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Conservatism > United States
- Political culture > United States
- Depression, Mental > Political aspects > United States
- Popular culture > United States
- Nostalgia > United States
- Nineteen fifties
- United States > Civilization > 1945-
- United States > Politics and government > 1989-
- United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989
- National characteristics, American
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-188) and index.
- Contents
- The "Fifties," an American metaphor -- A vertiginous languor: modernity and melancholia -- Overripe America -- Making love with absence: neoconservatism and the Fifties -- X-ray vision and the powers of performance: letting go of the Fifties -- The Left reviews the "Fifties" -- Conclusion: America, a phoenix reborn (again).
- Call Number
- ILH 05-6784
- ISBN
- 0816644071 (hc : alk. paper)
- 081664408X (pb : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005012921
- OCLC
- 60421165
- Author
- Caputi, Mary, 1957-
- Title
- A kinder, gentler America : melancholia and the mythical 1950s / Mary Caputi.
- Imprint
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-188) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- ILH 05-6784