{"product_id":"matt-henry-palm-1","title":"Matt Henry, PALM","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePalm\u003c\/em\u003e presents three fictional narratives that use the palm tree as an unlikely lens to explore the tumult of 1960s America. Set against a backdrop of exploding consumerism, the Vietnam War, second-wave feminism, and a growing countercultural youth, the stories track how the palm—once an unambiguous symbol of colonial exotica—evolved into a more complex cultural metaphor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA symbol of leisure and luxury, palms in the 1960s helped sell homes, cars, holidays, and products ranging from lipstick to tanning lotions to rum. Palms appeared ghoulishly across the airwaves from Vietnam in America’s first televised war. And palms came to represent escape from Western civilisation for a youthful generation enchanted with the East and eyeing up far-flung destinations across the hippie trail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe book draws its visual language from the ‘camp’ sensibility famously defined by Susan Sontag in her 1964 essay Notes on Camp, alongside the camp, ironic television of the decade. Shows such as Batman, Bewitched, The Monkees, and Gilligan’s Island often functioned on two levels: as Pop Art-hued entertainment for children, and as a satirical, subtle subversion of 1950s social norms for adults caught up in the bewildering turbulence of the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eLike these shows, the photographs in Palm contain fantastical sets and locations, and exaggerated clichés that encourage active, interpretive viewing. Moving from suburban Palm Springs to the jungles of Vietnam, and the far-flung destinations of the ‘hippie trail’, \u003cem\u003ePalm\u003c\/em\u003e embraces the artifice of camp to explore what the palm meant to a generation that was simultaneously selling the idea of palms, fighting beneath them, and running away to find them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePALM \u003c\/em\u003eis the 3rd book by Henry after NIGHT OF THE HUNTED and SHORT STORIES.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 105\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Sturm and Drang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58589222371663,"sku":"PK2384","price":65.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/3068\/6031\/files\/PKB_5359.jpg?v=1787912837","url":"https:\/\/publicknowledgebooks.com\/products\/matt-henry-palm-1","provider":"Public Knowledge","version":"1.0","type":"link"}