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Media and nostalgia : yearning for the past, present and future /

Title By: Niemeyer, Katharina, 1980- [Editor.]
Material type: BookSeries: Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.Description: xiv, 241 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781137375872Subject(s): Mass media -- Social aspects | Nostalgia -- Social aspects | Collective memory | Media -- psychological aspectsDDC classification: 302.23 Online resources: Location Map
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"Media and Nostalgia takes a closer look at the recent nostalgia boom and the relationship between media and nostalgia more generally; for example, digital photography that adopts a vintage style, the success of films such as The Artist and television series such as Mad Men, revivals of past music, fashion, and video games. However, this boom is not simply a fascination with the past; rather, it hints at something more profound. Expressions of nostalgia indicate a double helix type phenomenon with slower reactions to ever-faster technologies, and the possibility of an escape from the current crisis into a middle status of wanderlust (Fernweh) and a specific form of nostalgia such as homesickness. This collection explores, with a critical lens, the ways in which various media produce narratives of nostalgia, how they trigger nostalgic emotions and how they can in fact be a creative projection space in themselves"--
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Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Media and Nostalgia; Katharina Niemeyer PART I: ANALOGUE NOSTALGIAS 1. Analogue Nostalgia and the Aesthetics of Digital Remediation; Dominik Schrey 2. Homesick for Aged Home Movies: Why Do We Shoot Contemporary Family in an Old-Fashioned Way?; Giuseppina Sapio 3. The Instant Past: Nostalgia and Digital Retro Photography; Gil Bartholeyns 4. Retromania: Crisis of Progressive Ideal and Spectrality in Pop Music; Mael Guesdon and Philippe Le Guern PART II: EXPLOITED NOSTALGIAS 5. Retrotyping and the Marketing of Nostalgia; Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley 6. Anti-Nostalgia in Citroen's Advertising Campaign; Emmanuelle Fantin 7. Networks as Media for Nostalgia in an Organisational Context; Thibaut Bardon, Emmanuel Josserand and Florence Villeseche 8. Media and the Closure of the Memory Boom; Andrew Hoskins PART III : SCREENED NOSTALGIAS 9. Nostalgia is not What it Used to be: Serial Nostalgia and Nostalgic Television Series; Katharina Niemeyer and Daniela Wentz 10. AMC's Mad Men and the Politics of Nostalgia; David P. Pierson 11. The Television Channel ARTE as a Time Machine and Matrix for European Identity; Aline Hartemann 12. Nostalgia, Tinted Memories and Cinematic Historiography: On Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse (1958); Ute Holl PART IV: CREATIVE NOSTALGIAS 13. Creative Nostalgia for an Imagined Better Future: Il treno del Sud by the Migrant Filmmaker Alvaro Bizzarri; Morena La Barba 14. Nostalgia and Postcolonial Utopia in Senghor's Negritude; Nadia Yala Kisukidi 15. Impossible Nostalgia; Itzhak Goldberg 16 . Journeys through the Past: Contempt, Nostalgia and Enigma; John Potts Poetic Transfer of a (Serious) Situation; Marine Baudrillard Index.

"Media and Nostalgia takes a closer look at the recent nostalgia boom and the relationship between media and nostalgia more generally; for example, digital photography that adopts a vintage style, the success of films such as The Artist and television series such as Mad Men, revivals of past music, fashion, and video games. However, this boom is not simply a fascination with the past; rather, it hints at something more profound. Expressions of nostalgia indicate a double helix type phenomenon with slower reactions to ever-faster technologies, and the possibility of an escape from the current crisis into a middle status of wanderlust (Fernweh) and a specific form of nostalgia such as homesickness. This collection explores, with a critical lens, the ways in which various media produce narratives of nostalgia, how they trigger nostalgic emotions and how they can in fact be a creative projection space in themselves"--

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