Media and nostalgia : yearning for the past, present and future / edited by Katharina Niemeyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Niemeyer, Katharina, 1980- editor.

Series:

Palgrave Macmillan memory studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Social aspects.

Mass media.

Nostalgia--Social aspects.

Nostalgia.

Collective memory.

Mass media--Psychological aspects.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xiv, 241 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Analogue Nostalgias

1 Analogue Nostalgia and the Aesthetics of Digital Remediation / Dominik Schrey Schrey, Dominik 27

2 Homesick for Aged Home Movies: Why Do We Shoot Contemporary Family Videos in Old-Fashioned Ways? / Giuseppina Sapio Sapio, Giuseppina 39

3 The Instant Past: Nostalgia and Digital Retro Photography / Gil Bartholeyns Bartholeyns, Gil 51

4 Retromania: Crisis of the Progressive Idea! and Pop Music Spectrality / Maël Guesdon Guesdon, Maël, Philippe Le Guern Guern, Philippe Le 70

Part II Exploited Nostalgias

5 Retrotyping and the Marketing of Nostalgia / Michael Pickering Pickering, Michael, Emily Keightley Keightley, Emily 83

6 Anti-nostalgia in Citroen's Advertising Campaign / Emmanuelle Fantin Fantin, Emmanuelle 95

7 Networks as Media for Nostalgia in an Organisational Context / Thibaut Bardon Bardon, Thibaut, Emmanuel Josserand Josserand, Emmanuel, Florence Villesèche Villesèche, Florence 105

8 Media and the Closure of the Memory Boom / Andrew Hoskins Hoskins, Andrew 118

Part III Screened Nostalgias

9 Nostalgia Is Not What It Used to Be: Serial Nostalgia and Nostalgic Television Series / Katharina Niemeyer Niemeyer, Katharina, Daniela Wentz Wentz, Daniela 129

10 AMC's Mad Men and the Politics of Nostalgia / David Pierson Pierson, David 139

11 The Television Channel ARTE as a Time Machine and Matrix for European Identity / Aline Hartemann Hartemann, Aline 152

12 Nostalgia, Tinted Memories and Cinematic Historiography: On Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse (1958) / Ute Holl Holl, Ute 160

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 Barba, Morena La 179

14 Nostalgia and Postcolonial Utopia in Senghor's Negritude / Nadia Yala Kisukidi Kisukidi, Nadia Yala 191

15 Impossible Nostalgia / Itzhak Goldberg Goldberg, Itzhak 230

16 Journeys through the Past: Contempt, Nostalgia, Enigma / John Potts Potts, John 212.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137375872

1137375876

OCLC:

870285581