Happy Days: Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America

by Benjamin L. Alpers

After the techno-futurism of the 1950s and the utopian 1960s vision of a "great society," the 1970s saw Americans turning to the past as a source for both nostalgic escapism and serious reflection on the nation's history. While some popular works like Grease presented the relatively recent past as a more innocent time, far away from the nation's post-Vietnam, post-Watergate malaise, others like Roots used America's bicentennial as an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978830548
• ISBN13: 9781978830547
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 238 Pages