Screening nostalgia
Subtitle: populuxe props and technicolor aesthetics in contemporary American film
By: Christine Sprengler.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781845455590
Subjects: Nostalgia in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- Aesthetics; Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Setting the stage: the history of nostalgia; title: The fifties: nostalgia's privileged object and the origins of its dominant American strain; title: The nostalgia film in practice and theory; title: Sin city: reading the tails of a populuxe prop; title: Far from heaven: creative agency, social history and the expressive potential of costume; title: The aviator: deliberate archaism, technicolor aesthetics and style as substance; title: Conclusion: the good German and the good of nostalgia.