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Drawing on interviews with American couples from the 1950s to the 1980s, Weiss creates a dynamic portrait of family and social change in the postwar era. She pairs these firsthand accounts with a deft analysis of movies, television shows, magazines, and advice books from each decade, providing an unprecedented and intimate look at ordinary marriages in a time of sweeping cultural change. [publisher's description]
Baby boom generation --- Families --- Marriage --- Nineteen fifties. --- Nineteen fifties --- 1950s --- 50s (Twentieth century decade) --- Fifties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century
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Die 17 Beiträge des Bandes beleuchten das kulturelle Gesamtbild der 50er Jahre in bislang nicht bekannter Vollständigkeit. Thematisiert werden Philosophie und Religion ebenso wie Kunst, Architektur, Mode und Design, Werbung ebenso wie Musik, Literatur und Buchkultur, aber auch Sport, Tourismus und vor allem die neue Jugendkultur der Teenager und Halbstarken. Dabei wird den Medien der Zeit besondere Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet, insbesondere Theater und Radio, dem Film, der Fotografie, den Comic-Heftchen und Groschenromanen, der Presse und dem neu sich verbreitenden Fernsehen. Insgesamt zeigt sich dabei als charakteristisch für die 50er Jahre der Beginn einer gesellschaftsumfassenden Diversifikation von Lebensstilen und neuen Teilkulturen, initiiert und gesteuert vom Motor des medienkulturellen Wandels.
Nineteen fifties. --- Mass media --- Popular culture --- Social aspects --- Nineteen eighties. --- Historische en vergelijkende pedagogiek. --- 1950s --- 50s (Twentieth century decade) --- Fifties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century
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This book provides a stimulating account of the dominant cultural forms of 1950s America: fiction and poetry; theatre and performance; film and television; music and radio; and the visual arts. Through detailed commentary and focused case studies of influential texts and events - from Invisible Man to West Side Story, from Disneyland to the Seattle World's Fair, from Rear Window to The Americans - the book examines the way in which modernism and the cold war offer two frames of reference for understanding the trajectory of postwar culture. The two core aims of this volume are to chart the changing complexion of American culture in the years following World War II and to provide readers with a critical investigation of 'the 1950s'. The book provides an intellectual context for approaching 1950s American culture and considers the historical impact of the decade on recent social and cultural developments.
Nineteen fifties. --- Popular culture --- 1950s --- 50s (Twentieth century decade) --- Fifties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- History --- United States --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Social life and customs --- Nineteen fifties
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American Literature in Transition, 1950-1960 explores the under-recognized complexity and variety of 1950s American literature by focalizing discussions through a series of keywords and formats that encourage readers to draw fresh connections among literary form and concepts, institutions, cultures, and social phenomena important to the decade. The first section draws attention to the relationship between literature and cultural phenomena that were new to the 1950s. The second section demonstrates the range of subject positions important in the 1950s, but still not visible in many accounts of the era. The third section explores key literary schools or movements associated with the decade, and explains how and why they developed at this particular cultural moment. The final section focuses on specific forms or genres that grew to special prominence during the 1950s. Taken together, the chapters in the four sections not only encourage us to rethink familiar texts and figures in new lights, but they also propose new archives for future study of the decade.
American literature --- Nineteen fifties. --- Literature and society --- 1950s --- 50s (Twentieth century decade) --- Fifties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- History and criticism. --- History
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London (England) --- History --- Nineteen fifties --- 1950s --- 50s (Twentieth century decade) --- Fifties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- -History --- -Theses --- Theses --- London (England) - History - 1951 --- -London (England) - History - 1951 --- -London (England)
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Après la seconde guerre mondiale, les universitaires français furent aussi sévèrement épurés que la police ou la magistrature. Ont-ils davantage collaboré ? Furent-ils l’objet d’une sévérité particulière ? Pourquoi eux ? Les universitaires, à la fois libres de leur position et de leur engagement, occupent une place prestigieuse dans l’appareil d’État sans guère subir de pression du pouvoir politique. Ils représentent un champ d’observation singulier dans les rapports qu’entretient l’élite républicaine avec la France de Vichy. François Rouquet tente donc ici de cerner les logiques individuelles pour mieux comprendre l’aveuglement de ces fonctionnaires de la pensée. Ce livre cherche d’abord à connaître la spécificité des universitaires épurés, comparés aux fonctionnaires ordinaires et, plus généralement, à ce qu’il est convenu d’appeler « les intellectuels » ; ensuite, il s’attache à révéler les causes motivant leur engagement avec Vichy ainsi que la nature exacte de leur compromission. Enfin, il vise à élucider leurs justifications en étudiant les mémoires de défense souvent imposants et empreints d’une grande habileté. Cette source inédite et très riche où abondent les plaidoyers pro domo illustre la perception de l’époque. De ses troubles, de ses infamies et du destin de cette élite républicaine au service d’un régime qui, précisément, renversa la République. Au fil des cas évoqués, la singularité des parcours apparaît, les écarts se mettent en lumière, les explications se renforcent, et pour quelques professionnels de la rhétorique éclate le talent déployé pour s’exonérer de fautes au moment de l’épuration politique. Et cela va de la discrète pirouette qui métamorphose collaboration en résistance, aux tonitruants changements de cap pour rechercher, sans toujours l’obtenir, le même résultat : l’acquittement sinon le brevet de civisme.
Universities and colleges --- Education, Higher --- Higher education and state --- World War, 1939-1945 --- French universities --- History --- World war 2 to early 50s --- Collaboration. --- France --- Politics and government --- épuration --- régime de Vichy --- Résistance --- universitaires --- universités --- intellectuels --- intellectuels français --- élite
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In this text, art historian Martin Harrison brings the London of the fifties to life, in all its vigour & fertility. Ranging from painting to sculpture & from photography to architecture, he portrays a city in intellectual & artistic ferment.
moderne kunst --- 1950 - 1960 --- 20ste eeuw --- Londen --- Art --- Art, Modern --- CDL --- 7.038 --- Nineteen fifties --- 1950s --- 50s (Twentieth century decade) --- Fifties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- 1950 - 1960. --- 20ste eeuw. --- Londen.
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›Skandale‹ um geheim gehaltene Verstrickungen in den Nationalsozialismus haben u. a. mit Grass, Andersch oder Walser zentrale Mitglieder der Gruppe 47 betroffen. Die Studie fragt erstmals systematisch nach der Bedeutung dieser Einflüsse für die literarischen Texte der Gruppe. Ausgehend vom gegenwärtigen Bild der Gruppe 47, von Theorien narrativer Ethik und der Geschichtsforschung zur ›NS-Moral‹ untersucht die Studie diskursive Verknüpfungen von Moral und Zugehörigkeit in den wichtigsten Texten der Gruppe 47. Qualitative und quantitative Analysen zeigen die Vorherrschaft eines partikularen Moralverständnisses sowie in mehreren Texten einen Zusammenhang dieser Moralvorstellungen mit literarischem Antisemitismus. Daneben finden sich - u. a. in Bezugnahmen auf Bubers dialogisches Prinzip, das gerade die Hinwendung zum ›radikal Anderen‹ als ethisches Handeln konzipiert - auch alternative Ethiken; allerdings oft in Texten marginalisierter oder als untypisch geltender Mitglieder wie Bachmann und Celan.
German literature. --- NS-Moral --- partikulare Moral --- Nachkriegsliteratur --- BRD --- Antisemitismus --- Rassismus --- Identität und Alterität --- 50er Jahre --- Ethik --- NS morality --- particular morality --- post-war literature --- FRG --- anti-Semitism --- racism --- identity and alterity --- 50s --- Literature and literary studies --- Gruppe 47 (Germany) --- 1900-1999 --- Group 47 (Germany) --- Gruppe Siebenundvierzig --- Guruppe 47 (Germany) --- Grupo 47 (Germany)
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In the twenty-first century, why do we keep talking about the Fifties and the Sixties? The stark contrast between these decades, their concurrence with the childhood and youth of the baby boomers, and the emergence of television and rock and roll help to explain their symbolic power. In Happy Days and Wonder Years, Daniel Marcus reveals how interpretations of these decades have figured in the cultural politics of the United States since 1970. From Ronald Reagan's image as a Fifties Cold Warrior to Bill Clinton's fandom for Elvis Presley and John F. Kennedy, politicians have invoked the Fifties and the Sixties to connect to their public. Marcus shows how films, television, music, and memoirs have responded to the political nostalgia of today, and why our entertainment remains immersed in reruns, revivals, and references to earlier times. This book offers a new understanding of how politics and popular culture have influenced our notions of the past, and how events from long ago continue to shape our understanding of the present day.
Nineteen sixties. --- Nineteen fifties. --- Popular culture --- Conservatism --- Politics and culture --- 1950s --- 50s (Twentieth century decade) --- Fifties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- 1960s --- 60s (Twentieth century decade) --- Sixties (Twentieth century decade) --- History --- United States --- Civilization --- Politics and government --- 1945-1989 --- 1989 --- -Politics and culture --- 20th century --- 1945 --- -Nineteen fiftees --- Nineteen sixties --- Nineteen fiftees
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English literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- English fiction --- English poetry --- Movement, The (English poetry) --- Roman anglais --- Poésie anglaise --- Movement, The (Poésie anglaise) --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Nineteen fifties --- -English poetry --- -Movement, The (English poetry) --- 1950s --- 50s (Twentieth century decade) --- Fifties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- The Movement (English poetry) --- Poésie anglaise --- Movement, The (Poésie anglaise) --- English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- English poetry - 20th century - History and criticism
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