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04040aam a2200493 i 4500 001 00F058345F0811ECA70E6FDD2BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211217010126 008 200902t20212021njua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020031107 020 $a 1978813821 020 $a 9781978813823 020 $a 1978813813 020 $a 9781978813816 035 $a (OCoLC)1182868736 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN1992.3.U5 $b C845 2021 082 00 $a 791.45/750973 $2 23 100 1 $a Cullen, Jim, $e author. 245 10 $a From memory to history : $b television versions of the twentieth century / $c Jim Cullen. 264 1 $a New Brunswick, New Jersey : $b Rutgers University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 225 pages : $b illustrations (chiefly color) ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "History is a subject we all learn in school, some of us with more enthusiasm than others. But the way most of us know history-experience it, absorb it, apply its lessons to make sense of our everyday lives-is through popular culture. And no medium of popular culture has been more pervasive in offering Americans a vision of their country in the past century than television. Television has played an especially important role in the interpretation-and reinterpretation-of collective memory, which is to say the events that were experienced first- or second-hand but which have since receded into the past. From Memory to History examines the way TV shows of the past fifty years have depicted US society in the last century. The book examines how a series of events in the past hundred years-from the advent of Prohibition to the advent of the Internet-were portrayed in some of the most beloved shows of all time, among them The Waltons, M*A*S*H, and Mad Men. But the book does more than that. It also explains how any given TV show is at least as important a historical artifact of the time it was made as it is the time it depicts. So it is, for example, that we see how That ''70 Show reveals a lot about the 1990s in the process of telling a story about the 1970s. Or How Hogan's Heroes, a (somewhat bizarre, in retrospect) sitcom about a German concentration camp in World War II, almost despite itself, reveals underlying anxieties about Civil Rights and the Vietnam War in its hermetically sealed episodes. Or how The Americans valorizes the outcome of a Cold War that was a good deal more uncertain than it was in the 1980s, when the series is set. Each of the book's seven chapters offers context for a show's setting, the show's interpretive argument in the moment it was made, and how both look from the perspective of the 2020s. Here, truly, is history in three dimensions. Lively, informative, and incisive, From Memory to History will help you look at television, the American Century, and the times in which you are living in an intriguing new light"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Television programs $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Television and history $z United States. 650 0 $a National characteristics, American. 650 0 $a History on television. 650 0 $a Television $x Social aspects $z United States. 650 7 $a Civilization $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862898 650 7 $a History on television $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01749971 650 7 $a National characteristics, American $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01033342 650 7 $a Television and history $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01146686 650 7 $a Television programs $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01147026 650 7 $a Television $x Social aspects $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01146618 651 0 $a United States $x Civilization $y 20th century. 651 7 $a United States $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117012548.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=00F058345F0811ECA70E6FDD2BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search