Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements, Hardcover/Kristen Hoerl - University Press of Mississippi

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Ongoing interest in the turmoil of the 1960s clearly demonstrates how these social conflicts continue to affect contemporary politics.
Despite popular television and film, Hoerl explains, memory of 1960s activism still offers a potent resource for imagining how we can strive collectively to achieve social justice and equality..
Selective amnesia removes the spectacular events and figures that define the late-1960s from their motives and context, flattening their meaning into reductive stereotypes.
These warped messages contribute to "selective amnesia," a term that stresses how popular media renders radical ideas and political projects null or nonexistent.
According to Hoerl, these messages supply distorted civics lessons about what we should value and how we might legitimately participate in our democracy.
Hoerl indicates that a variety of television programs, such as Family Ties, The Wonder Years, and Law and Order, along with Hollywood films, including Forrest Gump, have reinforced images of the "bad sixties." These stories portray a period in which urban riots, Antiwar protests, sexual experimentation, drug abuse, and feminism led to national division and moral decay.
Film and television are salient resources of shared understanding for audiences born after the 1960s because movies and television programs are the most accessible visual medium for observing the decade\'s social movements.
But Hollywood has proved dismissive, if not adversarial, to the role of dissent in fostering progressive social change.
During the decade, people collectively raised fundamental questions about the limits of democracy under capitalism.
Hoerl shows how Hollywood has perpetuated politics deploring the detrimental consequences of the 1960s on traditional American values.
In The Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements, Kristen Hoerl focuses on fictionalized portrayals of 1960s activism in popular television and film.
Ongoing interest in the turmoil of the 1960s clearly demonstrates how these social conflicts continue to affect contemporary politics