Baby Boomers and Popular Culture : An Inquiry into America's Most Powerful Generation /: An Inquiry into America's Most Powerful Generation. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Brian Cogan, Thom Gencarelli Ph.D.
• Editors: Cogan, Brian; Ph.D., Thom Gencarelli
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Praeger
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (448 pages)
• Subjects: Social Science -- Popular Culture; Social Science -- General; Popular culture
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9798216051077; 8216051077
• Related ISBNs: 9780313398865
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