Publicación: Houses with picket fences: trying to recover a past that never was in Pleasantville and Celebration, Florida
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2014
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Junta de Andalucía: Grupo de Investigacion Hum.0271
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Al pensar en valores tradicionales y familias perfectas en Estados Unidos, la imagen que de inmediato viene a la mente es la de los años cincuenta, una década repetidamente refl ejada en un gran número de películas de Hollywood como la encarnación de un pasado idílico.
Sin embargo, dado que la representación fílmica de este periodo es a menudo edulcorada y demasiado perfecta, la película Pleasantville (1998) denuncia esta imagen artifi cial de los cincuenta. A pesar de ello, las presuntamente utópicas comunidades de los cincuenta siguen siendo un objetivo en el campo de la arquitectura, tal y como el ejemplo de la ciudad de Celebration en Florida sugiere. Este artículo analiza Pleasantville y Celebration para explorar cómo la década de los cincuenta aún está muy presente en la cultura y la vida americana en la actualidad.
When one thinks about traditional values and perfect families in the United States of America, the image that immediately comes to mind is that of the Fifties, a decade repeatedly portrayed in an endless number of Hollywood movies as the epitome of an idyllic past. Because the fi lmic representation of this period is more often than not sugarcoated and far too perfect, the movie Pleasantville (1998) denounces the pervasiveness of this fabricated image of the Fifties. Yet, the so-called utopian neighborhoods of the Fifties continue being an architectural goal, as the design and founding of the planned community of Celebration, Florida, testify to. This essay uses Pleasantville and the example of Celebration to explore how the Fifties are still very much present in contemporary American culture and life.
When one thinks about traditional values and perfect families in the United States of America, the image that immediately comes to mind is that of the Fifties, a decade repeatedly portrayed in an endless number of Hollywood movies as the epitome of an idyllic past. Because the fi lmic representation of this period is more often than not sugarcoated and far too perfect, the movie Pleasantville (1998) denounces the pervasiveness of this fabricated image of the Fifties. Yet, the so-called utopian neighborhoods of the Fifties continue being an architectural goal, as the design and founding of the planned community of Celebration, Florida, testify to. This essay uses Pleasantville and the example of Celebration to explore how the Fifties are still very much present in contemporary American culture and life.
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Pleasantville, años cincuenta, Hollywood, urbanismo y planificación urbana, Celebration, the fifties, new urbanism, town planning
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M. Carmen Gómez Galisteo, Houses with picket fences: trying to recover a past that never was in Pleasantville and Celebration, Florida. The Grove: Working papers on English studies, ISSN 1137-005X, Nº 21, 2014, págs. 69-82
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