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Extended Essay - Coggle Diagram
Extended Essay
The Cultural Artefact - Back to the Future
Characters
Marty McFly- what dooes he represent
Michael J.Fox
Biff
High School bully and Jock
Doc Brown
Year is 1955 - the film is set in 1985
Cultural knowledge of 1950s is protrayed to the 1985 audience and most people recognised it.
A peaceful and properous age
1980's romanticised 1950s -
Ronald Reagan actual refered to the 1950s! A film star of that age.
Timetravel back to a simpler time highlights the concept that the 1980s were more complicated and need of finding solutions to present problems by looking to the past .... however we will argue that this was fabricated narrative that failed to reflect the true issues of 1950s America. Furtheremore, this essay is useful for us in 2021 as we once agin live through a political age that locks backward to times when America was Great (MAGA) or Britains Brexit.
1950s nostalgia ... or simply a revisionist history that erases the past.
Were the 1950's really a golden age?
McCarthyism
Cold War
Korean War
Space Race
Racial Segregation
Why might the 1980s America be "reminiscing" about the 1950s?
Check out the film maker and writer? Born in the 1950s
How can we sum up 1980s America?
Reaganism