دانلود کتاب The Aesthetics of Nostalgia TV: Production Design and the Boomer Era

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Cover\nContents\nList of Figures\nAcknowledgments\nPreface\nIntroduction: Touring the Mad Men Set\n Interventions in production studies\n Revising authorship\n Deconstructing the “text”\n Methodological interventions\n Interventions in memory studies\n Quality television and identity politics\n Chapter breakdown\n Notes\nPART ONE Sets\n 1 TV Suburbia and Remembering the Sitcom Set\n Introduction: The nostalgia of recycled sets\n The sitcom studio lot as living archive\n My Universal Studio tour and narrativizing fantastic space\n Conclusion: Industry nostalgia and the sitcom home\n Notes\n 2 Office Sets and Nostalgic Modernism in the TV Workplace\n Introduction: Differences at work\n What the modernist office set says about fantasies of self and home\n The politics of taste in television production design’s reinventions of modernism\n “Bad taste” and gender identity in the corporate modernist set\n The industry background of reinventing the boomer years\n Conclusion: Retro modernism as shorthand\n Notes\nPART TWO Props\n 3 Prop Talk: A Behind-the-Scenes Look\n Introduction: The importance of props\n Press about props\n The popular legitimation of the prop industry and digital tensions\n When props become the whole story: Historical time travel\n Conclusion: Digital era prop talk\n Notes\n 4 Prop Stories: Media Props in Narrative Context\n Introduction: Props tell stories\n The Polaroid camera as narrative device\n The home movie as historical conduit\n The nostalgic anticipation of digitality in Mad Men\n Old media props in other period dramas\n Conclusion: The privileges of time travel\n Notes\nPART THREE Costumes\n 5 Making, Renting, and Telling National Histories through Costume\n Introduction: Clothes tell stories\n Costume design as gender historian\n Telling history by disrobing\n From the maker’s perspective\n Other examples of television fashion doing gender history\n Conclusion: When words fail, costumes do not\n Notes\n 6 Costume Countermemory: Marginalized Television Voices and Chicana Retro\n Introduction: Questioning nostalgia’s whiteness\n The postwar “New Look” and nostalgia television\n Ugly Betty’s aesthetic, narrative, and industrial diaspora\n Clashing vintage patterns and “bad” taste\n The Western Costume Company and costume bricolage\n Bad taste in nostalgic costume design\n Conclusion: How far we’ve come?\n Notes\n 7 Conclusion: Nostalgic Failure\n When nostalgia goes bad: The Playboy Club, Aquarius, and Pan Am\n Draper fatigue\n Nostalgia in 3D\n Notes\nBibliography\nIndex