Baby Boomers and Popular Culture

An Inquiry into America's Most Powerful Generation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

AvBrian Cogan,Thom Gencarelli,Brian Cogan,Thom Gencarelli Ph.D.,Thom Gencarelli Ph D.

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The Boomers are the generation that changed everything, from economics to politics to popular culture. This book examines the myriad ways and long-reaching consequences of the now fully "grown up" Baby Boomer generation on America.Once upon a time, the members of the Baby Boomer generation were young, idealistic, and hungry to change the world. And they did create sweeping, irreversible changes throughout American society—but probably not in the ways their younger selves imagined they would. Now that the Boomers are in their late-adult or retirement years, their tremendous legacy can clearly be perceived. In retrospect, the paths the members of this generation took to come to power—and how they came to terms with that power—are also apparent.This single-volume work supplies a broad yet detailed critical guide to the Boomer Generation, containing essays on key people, moments, and phenomena not only during the Boomers' 1960s heyday but also their extensive influences on American culture decades afterward. The contributors address key topics such as the rise of feminism; Civil Rights; the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement; the Beatles, the Grateful Dead, and rock 'n roll; gay rights; idealism, narcissism, and materialism; the influence of television on America, and vice versa; and the transition of Boomers from being "Yippies" to "Yuppies." This work is an ideal text for students in undergraduate or graduate courses in television studies, media studies, cultural studies, and American studies; and is highly appropriate as a supplemental text in literature, history, and philosophy surveys.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-11-25
Mått156 x 235 x 29 mm
Vikt907 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor448
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780313398865

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IntroductionBrian Cogan and Thom GencarelliPART 1: POLITICS1. From Camelot to Watergate: Ten Years That Changed the Politics of Boomer CultureWilliam M. Knoblauch?2. The Whole World Is Watching: The SDS and Student Movement of the 1960sEd Tywoniak3. Breaking Down Doors: The Stonewall Riots and LGBT RightsAnastacia Kurylo4. Wearing Members Only Jackets: Baby Boomers and the Shift from Sharing in to Buying into CommunityTodd Kelshaw5. Boomers in the Global VillageMichael GrabowskiPART 2: TELEVISION AND FILM6. Let the Games Begin: Baby Boomers, Capitalist Ideology, and the Containment of Gender in Sports TelevisionCheryl A. Casey7. "And Now Bringing You the Good Life—A Word from Our Sponsors": The Changing Face of Television Advertising from the Sixties to the Present DayRebecca Kern8. Moving with the Pictures: Film Viewing across the Boomer EraSheila J. Nayar9. Chilling to The Big Chill: Representations of Boomers in MoviesRobert Hensley-King10. The New Horror MovieTodd K. Platts11. Rock Music on Film: A Selective ChronologySarah BoslaughPART 3: POPULAR MUSIC12. "It's Only Rock-'n'-Roll": The Rise of the Contemporary Popular Music Industry as a Defining Factor in the Creation of Boomer CultureThom Gencarelli13. "In My Life": The Transformative Power of Music and Media during the Rebellions of the 1960sRobert Albrecht14. "Love Is All You Need": Why There Will Never Be Another BeatlesPhil Rose15. Bob Dylan and Spectacle Culture: Yesterday and TodaySalvatore J. Fallica16. "Come See about Me": Why the Baby Boomers Liked Stax but Loved MotownGary KentonPART 4: LITERATURE17. Reading the Boomers' Reading: What Did They Read? Who Did They Read? Who Wrote about Them?David Linton18. Equipment for Living: The Popularity and Use of Second-Wave Feminist Literature among Baby BoomersKim Trager Bohley19. "After Life, the Magazine, the Splintering of the Categories: Boomers as a Target Audience" (including "Mau-Mau-ing the Press: The Rise of 'New' Journalism," "Rolling Stone: The Magazine That Marked a Generation," and "Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, and the 'New Journalism' as Literature")Brian Cogan20. Soul on Ice: The Rise of Minority LiteratureChristopher Allen Varlack21. The Baby Boom, the Bomb, and Outer Space: Growing Up in a Science Fiction WorldLance Strate22. Marshall McLuhan and the Making of a Countercultural GenerationJames C. MorrisonIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors