dc.contributor.author |
Bezirdjian, Melina Carla |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2011-06-15T18:26:18Z |
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dc.date.available |
2012-03-06T18:41:15Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2011-03 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11269 |
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dc.description |
xiii, 119 p. : ill. (some col.) |
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dc.description.abstract |
Airstream brand travel trailers from the 1950s and 60s have developed a
subculture dedicated to their preservation and use. This subculture serves as a case study
for how nostalgia, defined in a postmodern context, may promote preservation and
creative communion with the past. After examining criticisms of preservation’s focus on
material integrity, the discussion focuses on the need to factor user-based relationships
into historic preservation. A postmodern reexamination of nostalgia defines it not merely
as a longing for the past but also as a form of social critique which seeks to mitigate
modernity with the past. Mid-century Airstream preservation reflects a desire to revive
specific, positive values of the past in order to ameliorate the future and form temporal
continuity. For the mid-century Airstream subculture, nostalgia fosters both restoration
and recreation, allowing for an iconic emblem of the past to function in the present rather
than fade into obsolescence. |
en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship |
Committee in charge: Dr. Leland Roth, Chairperson;
Elizabeth Carter, Member |
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dc.language.iso |
en_US |
en_US |
dc.publisher |
University of Oregon |
en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries |
University of Oregon theses, Interdisciplinary Studies Program: Historic Preservation, M.S., 2011; |
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dc.subject |
Airstream trailers |
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dc.subject |
Nostalgia |
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dc.subject |
Historic preservation |
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dc.title |
Vehicular Vernacular: The Mid-Century Airstream as a Case Study in Preservation, Nostalgia and Subculture Formation |
en_US |
dc.title.alternative |
Mid-Century Airstream as a Case Study in Preservation, Nostalgia and Subculture Formation |
en_US |
dc.type |
Thesis |
en_US |