Vehicular Vernacular: The Mid-Century Airstream as a Case Study in Preservation, Nostalgia and Subculture Formation
| dc.contributor.author | Bezirdjian, Melina Carla | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-06-15T18:26:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-03-06T18:41:15Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-03 | |
| dc.description | xiii, 119 p. : ill. (some col.) | en_US |
| 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 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/11269 | |
| 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; | |
| dc.subject | Airstream trailers | |
| dc.subject | Nostalgia | |
| dc.subject | Historic preservation | |
| 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 |