The 1980s
Subtitle: a critical and transitional decade
By: edited by Kimberly R. Moffitt and Duncan A. Campbell
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780739143131; 9780739143148
Subjects: Politics and government; Social conditions; Popular culture; Foreign relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the 80s as a decade / Kimberly R. Moffitt and Duncan A. Campbell; title: Ronald W. Reagan : redefining the presidency / Jeffery B. Cook; title: Reagan revives FBI spying / Ivan Greenberg; title: The "real" right turn : the Reagan Supreme Court / Scott A. Merriman; title: Privatizing the Leviathan state : a Reaganomic legacy / Robert P. Weiss; title: Airlines, lousy unions : airline workers in the era of deregulation and hostile takeover / Jana K. Lipman; title: Triumph of the Gipper and the Democratic Party malaise in the 1980s / Thomas F. Schaller; title: The Christian right's traditionalist jeremiad : piety and politics in the age of Reagan / Andrew R. Murphy; title: New right, new history, common ground : populism and the past / Jessie Swigger; title: An army of one in 1:18 scale : the profit of patriotism in G.I. Joe / Demian Ryder; title: Fixing the fifties : Alex P. Keaton and Marty McFly / Michael Dwyer; title: How Broadway has cared : the AIDS epidemic and the Great White Way / Virginia Anderson.; title: Counterpublic art and social practice / Philip Glahn; title: Date rape and sexual politics / Caryn E. Neumann; title: A culture in panic : day care abuse scandals and the vulnerability of children / N'Jai-An Patters; title: What's class got to do with it? : facets of Tracy Chapman through song / Heather E. Harris; title: Reading MTV : the proliferation of United States culture in the age of globalization / Suzuko Morikawa; title: The United States and apartheid / Paul M. Pressley; title: The opening of China and the evolution of China-U.S. cross-cultural understanding / James Schnell; title: U.S. foreign policy in Latin America on film : the case of Salvador / Kristin Sorensen; title: Cold War crucible : the Berlin Wall and American exceptionalism / Kirk Tyvela; title: Fear of a Black planet : Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, and Eddie Murphy and the globalization of Black masculinity / Reynaldo Anderson, Jason Thompson, and Nikita Harris; title: Matter and Mammon : fiction in the age of Reagan / Alan Bilton; title: Alternative for alternative's sake : progressive college radio's programming struggles / David Uskovich; title: Life in marvelous times : commemorative narratives of the golden era in hip hop culture / James Braxton Peterson; title: Do we get to win this time? : movies, mythology, and political culture in Reagan country / Stephen McVeigh.