Screening Nostalgia populuxe props and technicolor aesthetics in contemporary American film

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Main Author: Sprengler, Christine
Format: Book
Published: United States Berghahn Books 2011
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Table of Contents:
  • Setting the stage : the history of nostalgia
  • The fifties : Nostalgia's privileged object and the origins of its dominant American Stain
  • The nostalgia film in practice and theory
  • Sin city : reading the tails of a populuxe prop
  • Far from heaven : creative agency, social history and the expressive potemntial of costume
  • The aviator : deliberate archaism, thechnicolor aesthetics and style as substance
  • Conclusion: The good German and the good of nostalgia