From Memory to History : : Television Versions of the Twentieth Century /

From Memory to History : : Television Versions of the Twentieth Century / / Jim Cullen.

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Our understanding of history is often mediated by popular culture, and television series set in the past have provided some of our most indelible images of previous times. Yet such historical television programs always reveal just as much about the era in which they are produced as the era in which...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021
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Cullen, Jim,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (255 p.) :; 8 color images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION Television’s History
  • CHAPTER 1 LEFT TO THE RIGHT The Waltons as a 1970s Version of the 1930s
  • CHAPTER 2 CAMP HISTORY Hogan’s Heroes as a 1960s Version of the 1940s
  • CHAPTER 3 A FUNNY WAR M*A*S*H as a 1970s Version of the 1950s
  • CHAPTER 4 DREAM ADVERTISEMENT Mad Men as a 2000s Version of the 1960s
  • CHAPTER 5 WE’RE ALL ALL RIGHT That ’70s Show as a 1990s Version of the 1970s
  • CHAPTER 6 DOMESTIC FRONT The Americans as a 2010s Version of the 1980s
  • CHAPTER 7 PROGRAMMING HOPE Halt and Catch Fire as a 2010s Version of the 1990s
  • CONCLUSION Visualizing the Future of the Past
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTES
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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