Brat Pack America a Love Letter to '80s Teen Movies
Title | Brat Pack America a Love Letter to '80s Teen Movies PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Total Pages | |
Release | 2016 |
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From the fictional towns of Hill Valley, CA, and Shermer, IL, to the beautiful landscapes of Astoria and Brownsville, OR, from the iconic suburbs of the San Fernando Valley to the seemingly scary inner cities of Chicago, '80s teen movies had one thing in common: locations mattered. Perhaps moreso than in any other decade, the locations of the '80s teen movies were monumentally important. In Brat Pack America, Kevin Smokler gives virtual tours of your favorite movies while also picking apart why these locations are so important to these movies. Including interviews with actors, writers, and directors of the era, and chock full of interesting facts about your favorite 80s movies, Brat Pack America is a must for any fan. Smokler went to Goonies Day in Astoria, OR, took a Lost Boys tour of Santa Cruz, CA, and deeply explored every nook and cranny of the movies we all know and love, and it shows.
Acting for America
Title | Acting for America PDF eBook |
Author | Robert T. Eberwein |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | 313 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0813547598 |
The book focuses on the way various film icons engaged in and defined some major issues of cultural and social concern to America during the 1980s.
We're Not Here to Entertain
Title | We're Not Here to Entertain PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Mattson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 417 |
Release | 2020-05-14 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0190908254 |
Many remember the 1980s as the era of Ronald Reagan, a conservative decade populated by preppies and yuppies dancing to a soundtrack of electronic synth pop music. In some ways, it was the "MTV generation." However, the decade also produced some of the most creative works of punk culture, from the music of bands like the Minutemen and the Dead Kennedys to avant-garde visual arts, literature, poetry, and film. In We're Not Here to Entertain, Kevin Mattson documents what Kurt Cobain once called a "punk rock world" --the all-encompassing hardcore-indie culture that incubated his own talent. Mattson shows just how widespread the movement became--ranging across the nation, from D.C. through Ohio and Minnesota to LA--and how democratic it was due to its commitment to Do-It-Yourself (DIY) tactics. Throughout, Mattson puts the movement into a wider context, locating it in a culture war that pitted a blossoming punk scene against the new president. Reagan's talk about end days and nuclear warfare generated panic; his tax cuts for the rich and simultaneous slashing of school lunch program funding made punks, who saw themselves as underdogs, seethe at his meanness. The anger went deep, since punks saw Reagan as the country's entertainer-in-chief; his career, from radio to Hollywood and television, synched to the very world punks rejected. Through deep archival research, Mattson reignites the heated debates that punk's opposition generated in that era-about everything from "straight edge" ethics to anarchism to the art of dissent. By reconstructing the world of punk, Mattson demonstrates that it was more than just a style of purple hair and torn jeans. In so doing, he reminds readers of punk's importance and its challenge to simplistic assumptions about the 1980s as a one-dimensional, conservative epoch.
Wasted: Performing Addiction in America
Title | Wasted: Performing Addiction in America PDF eBook |
Author | Dr Heath A Diehl |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | 221 |
Release | 2016-01-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1472442377 |
Departing from the scholarly treatment of addiction as a form of rhetoric or discursive formation, Wasted: Performing Addiction in America focuses on the material, lived experience of addiction and the ways in which it is shaped by a ‘metaphor of waste’, from the manner in which people describe the addict, the experience of inebriation or his or her systematic exclusion from various aspects of American culture. It will appeal to scholars of popular culture, cultural and media studies, performance studies, sociology and American culture.
Postwar America
Title | Postwar America PDF eBook |
Author | James Ciment |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 1721 |
Release | 2015-03-26 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1317462351 |
From the outbreak of the Cold War to the rise of the United States as the last remaining superpower, the years following World War II were filled with momentous events and rapid change. Diplomatically, economically, politically, and culturally, the United States became a major influence around the globe. On the domestic front, this period witnessed some of the most turbulent and prosperous years in American history. "Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History" provides detailed coverage of all the remarkable developments within the United States during this period, as well as their dramatic impact on the rest of the world. A-Z entries address specific persons, groups, concepts, events, geographical locations, organizations, and cultural and technological phenomena. Sidebars highlight primary source materials, items of special interest, statistical data, and other information; and Cultural Landmark entries chronologically detail the music, literature, arts, and cultural history of the era. Bibliographies covering literature from the postwar era and about the era are also included, as are illustrations and specialized indexes.
America's Victories
Title | America's Victories PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Schweikart |
Publisher | Winged Hussar Publishing |
Total Pages | 464 |
Release | 2015-09-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0996365788 |
In America's Victories, Professor Larry Schweikart restores the truth about our amazing military heritage. Just as he did in his acclaimed previous book, A Patriot's History of the United States, Professor Schweikart cuts through the distortions passed along by academia and the media
The Brat Pack
Title | The Brat Pack PDF eBook |
Author | Renee' Dimaria Lowe |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | 38 |
Release | 2016-04-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781530981991 |
Three girls wash away their summer blues by forming a band and playing for their family.