Screening Nostalgia populuxe props and technicolor aesthetics in contemporary American film
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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