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- Title
THE RIGHT STUFF AT THE WRONG TIME: THE SPACE OF NOSTALGIA IN THE CONSERVATIVE ASCENDANCY.
- Authors
Scott, James
- Abstract
The article discusses the 1983 film "The Right Stuff," directed by Philip Kaufman and how it fits into the conservatism of the 1980s. The author explains that the film argues that small town heroes can conquer the Communists, bureaucrats, and make technology fit their individual creative purposes. The author explains that the film supported the ideology of nostalgia crucial to the administration of U.S. Republican Ronald Reagan. The author states that the film did this without endorsing the aggressive heroics of right-wing populism. The article also discusses masculinity and nostalgia in several other American films of the 1980s.
- Subjects
UNITED States; RIGHT Stuff, The (Film); NOSTALGIA in motion pictures; CONSERVATISM; KAUFMAN, Philip; REAGAN, Ronald, 1911-2004; MOTION pictures &; politics; MASCULINITY in motion pictures; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY of conservatism
- Publication
Film & History (03603695), 2010, Vol 40, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
0360-3695
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/flm.0.0147