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The Waltons: Nostalgia and Myth in Seventies America
Mike Chopra-Gant
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Description for The Waltons: Nostalgia and Myth in Seventies America
Paperback. 'The Waltons',about John and Olivia Walton, their parents and their seven children in 1930s and 40s America was a successful show throughout the 1970s. In 2008 - perhaps significantly - the first six series of the show were released on DVD. This is classic television with continued relevance, still running on cable TV and remembered affectionately. Num Pages: 208 pages, Black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; APT; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 139 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 296.
The period in which The Waltons appeared on television screens was socially and politically volatile; a testing time in which Americans grappled with 'stagflation', rising oil prices, defeat in Vietnam, political corruption at the highest levels and the aftermath of the seismic political shifts that originated in the countercultural movements of the preceding decade. In this fascinating book, Mike Chopra-Gant demonstrates how the Waltons offered 1970s America a reassuring vision of itself at this turbulent time, and displayed a nostalgic desire for a return to traditional conservative and paternalistic family values in the face of the shifts taking place in ... Read more
The period in which The Waltons appeared on television screens was socially and politically volatile; a testing time in which Americans grappled with 'stagflation', rising oil prices, defeat in Vietnam, political corruption at the highest levels and the aftermath of the seismic political shifts that originated in the countercultural movements of the preceding decade. In this fascinating book, Mike Chopra-Gant demonstrates how the Waltons offered 1970s America a reassuring vision of itself at this turbulent time, and displayed a nostalgic desire for a return to traditional conservative and paternalistic family values in the face of the shifts taking place in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848850293
SKU
V9781848850293
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About Mike Chopra-Gant
Mike Chopra-Gant is Course Leader in Mass Communications at London Metropolitan University. He is the author of 'Hollywood Genre and Postwar America: Masculinity, Family and Nation in Popular Movies and Film Noir' (I.B. Tauris, 2005) and of 'Cinema and History: The Telling of Stories' (2008).
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