Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture

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U of Minnesota Press, 1997 - 306 pàgines

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Continguts

Popular Culture This Aint No Sideshow
3
Precious and Communicable History in an Age of Popular Culture
21
Popular Television
37
The Meaning of Memory Family Class and Ethnicity in Early Network Television
39
Why Remember Mama? The Changing Face of a Womans Narrative
77
Popular Music
97
Against the Wind Dialogic Aspects of Rock and Roll
99
Cruising Around the Historical Bloc Postmodernism and Popular Music in East Los Angeles
133
The New York Intellectuals Samuel Fuller and Edgar Ulmer
179
Popular Narrative
209
History Myth and Counter Memory Narrative and Desire in Popular Novels
211
Mardi Gras Indians Carnival and CounterNarrative in Black New Orleans
233
History and the Future
255
Buscando America Looking for America Collective Memory in an Age of Amnesia
257
Notes
275
Index
295

Popular Film
161
No Way Out Dialogue and Negotiation in Reel America
163

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Pàgina 227 - Modern environments and experiences cut across all boundaries of geography and ethnicity, of class and nationality, of religion and ideology: in this sense, modernity can be said to unite all mankind. But it is a paradoxical unity, a unity in disunity: it pours us all into a maelstrom of perpetual disintegration and renewal, of struggle and contradiction, of ambiguity and anguish. To be modern is to be part of a universe in which, as Marx said, "all that is solid melts into air.
Pàgina 29 - I believe one's point of reference should not be to the great model of language (langue) and signs, but to that of war and battle. The history which bears and determines us has the form of a war rather than that of a language: relations of power, not relations of meaning.
Pàgina 211 - I will tell you something about stories, [he said] They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.
Pàgina 211 - Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
Pàgina 213 - ... Counter-memory looks to the past for the hidden histories excluded from dominant narratives. But unlike myths that seek to detach events and actions from the fabric of any larger history, counter-memory forces revision of existing histories by supplying new perspectives about the past. Countermemory embodies aspects of myth and aspects of history, but it retains an enduring suspicion of both categories.
Pàgina 41 - Anomalous to the commercial and artistic properties of television, these programs also ran counter to the dominant social trends in the era in which they were made. They presented ethnic families in working-class urban neighborhoods at the precise historical moment when a rising standard of living, urban renewal, and suburbanization contributed to declines in ethnic and class...

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