Screening Nostalgia : : Populuxe Props and Technicolor Aesthetics in Contemporary American Film / / Christine Sprengler.
"In this fascinating in-depth study of the impact of nostalgia on contemporary American cinema, Christine Sprengler unpicks the history of the concept and explores its significance in theory and practice. She offers a lucid analysis of the development of nostalgia in American society and cultur...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Setting the Stage: The History of Nostalgia
- Chapter 2 The Fifties: Nostalgia’s Privileged Object and the Origins of its Dominant American Strain
- Chapter 3 The Nostalgia Film in Practice and Theory
- Chapter 4 Sin City: Reading the Tails of a Populuxe Prop
- Chapter 5 Far From Heaven: Creative Agency, Social History and the Expressive Potential of Costume
- Chapter 6 The Aviator: Deliberate Archaism, Technicolor Aesthetics and Style as Substance
- Conclusion: The Good German and the Good of Nostalgia
- Filmography
- References
- Index