The Aesthetics of Nostalgia TV : Production Design and the Boomer Era /: Production Design and the Boomer Era. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alex Bevan.
• Authors: Bevan, Alex
• Contents: Acknowledgements PrefaceIntroduction: Touring the Mad Men SetInterventions in Production Studies Devising Authorship Deconstructing the 'Text'Methodological Interventions Interventions in Memory Studies Quality Television and Identity Politics Chapter BreakdownPart I: SetsChapter One: TV Suburbia and Remembering the Sitcom Set Introduction: The Nostalgia of Recycled SetsThe Sitcom Studio Lot as Living ArchiveMy Universal Studio Tour and Narrativizing Fantastic Space Conclusion: Industry Nostalgia and the Sitcom HomeChapter Two: Office Sets and Nostalgic Modernism in the TV Workplace Introduction: Differences at WorkWhat the Modernist Office Set Says About Fantasies of Self and Home The Politics of Taste in Television Production Design's Reinventions of Modernism'Bad Taste' and Gender Identity in the Corporate Modernist Set The Industry Background of Reinventing the Boomer Years Conclusion: Retro Modernism as ShorthandPart II: PropsChapter Three: Prop Talk: A Behind the Scenes Look Introduction: The Importance of PropsPress About PropsThe Popular Legitimation of the Prop Industry and Digital Tensions When Props Become the Whole Story: Historical Time Travel Conclusion: Digital Era Prop TalkChapter Four: Prop Stories: Media Props in Narrative Context Introduction: Props Tell StoriesThe Polaroid as Narrative DeviceThe Home Movie as Historical ConduitThe Nostalgic Anticipation of Digitality in Mad Men Old Media Props in Other Period Dramas Conclusion: The Privileges of Time TravelPart III: CostumesChapter Five: Making, Renting, and Telling Histories Through Costume Introduction: Clothes Tell StoriesCostume Design as Gender Historian Telling History By DisrobingFrom the Maker's PerspectiveOther Examples of Television Fashion Doing Gender History Conclusion: When Words Fails, Costumes Do NotChapter Six: Costume Countermemory: Marginalized Television Voices and Chicana RetroIntroduction: Questioning Nostalgia's Whiteness The Postwar 'New Look' and Nostalgia TVUgly Betty's Aesthetic, Narrative, and Industrial Diaspora Clashing Vintage Patterns and 'Bad' TasteThe Western Costume Company and Costume Bricolage Bad Taste in Nostalgic Costume DesignConclusion: How Far We've Come?Conclusion: Nostalgic FailureWhen Nostalgia Goes Bad: The Playboy Club, Aquarius, and Pam AmDraper Fatigue Nostalgia in 3DBibliography Index.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 791.45750973; Television production: technical & background skills; Television programs -- Production and direction -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Television programs -- Social aspects -- United States; PERFORMING ARTS / Reference; Memory; Radio & television industry; Performing Arts -- Television -- General; Performing Arts -- Television -- Direction & Production; Television; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501331435; 1501331434
• Related ISBNs: 9781501331411
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 28, 2018).
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