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Watching Nostalgia An Analysis of Nostalgic Television Fiction and its Reception Stefanie Armbruster
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Armbruster, Stefanie <p>Stefanie Armbruster, Munich, Germany</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Cultural studies (Transcript) ; Volume 48.
- Cultural Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Television.
- Television Series.
- Period Drama.
- Nostalgia.
- Emotions.
- Audience.
- Memory Culture.
- Cultural Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Television.
- Television Series.
- Period Drama.
- Nostalgia.
- Emotions.
- Audience.
- Memory Culture.
- Cultural Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (437 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Armbruster, Watching Nostalgia An Analysis of Nostalgic Television Fiction and its Reception
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2016
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Stefanie Armbruster (Dr.) lives in Munich, Germany, and works in the television sector. Her research interests include cultural and media studies with a focus on innovation and nostalgia.
- Summary:
- What is nostalgia in television? How far does a nostalgic text trigger nostalgic emotions? And how are nostalgic series received by different audience groups?Stefanie Armbruster uses an interdisciplinary approach as analytical and theoretical basis. Her detailed analyses identify nostalgia in reruns, remakes and period dramas such as "Knight Rider" or "Mad Men". Focus group discussions with German and Spanish viewers give new insights into its reception.The in-depth study helps to understand the interrelation of nostalgic texts and nostalgic reception better and explores a decisive part of a phenomenon that is omnipresent in our current TV landscape.
- »Spannend ist die Arbeit vor allem dort, wo sie sich dem Themenkomplex aus einer dezidiert interdisziplinären Perspektive nähert und aus verschiedenen Modulen ein umfangreiches Theoriegebäude errichtet, um eine möglichst unvoreingenommene Untersuchung zu gewährleisten.«
- »Die Publikation bereichert Nostalgie-, Emotions- und Serienforschung gleichermaßen. Unbedingt empfehlenswert.«
- Besprochen in:GMK-Newsletter, 10 (2016)CHOICE, 54/12 (2017), R. RayBOKAS – Sekundärliteratur, KTS 65, Thomas Przybilka
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Content 5 Acknowledgements 9 1. Introduction 11 2. Nostalgia 19 3. Two 'archives' - nostalgia's relationship to the past 43 4. Aesthetic emotions - on nostalgia's relationship to the present 57 5. The 'genres' of nostalgic fiction 83 6. Case studies on nostalgia on the textual level 95 7. The reception of nostalgia 199 8. Presentation of results 215 9. Discussion of the results of the reception study 369 10. Afterword 389 11. Bibliography 391 12. Appendix 421
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783839435090
- 3839435099
- OCLC:
- 953884584
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