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Was it yesterday? : nostalgia in contemporary film and television / edited by Matthew Leggatt.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
- SUNY series, horizons of cinema
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--United States.
- Motion pictures.
- Nostalgia in motion pictures.
- Television programs--United States.
- Television programs.
- Nostalgia on television.
- Genre:
- Film criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 279 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television. Explores the rise of cultural nostalgia in contemporary film and television, from reboots of classic films and TV series like Westworld and the Star Wars franchise to series like Stranger Things and The Americans"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: History in Reverse
- Part 1 What Is Nostalgia?
- 1 Clearing Up the Haze: Toward a Definition of the "Nostalgia Film" Genre
- 2 Midcentury Metamodern: Returning Home in theTwenty-First-Century Nostalgia Film
- 3 Touched by Time:Memories of the Faded Star
- 4 Mimetic Tangible Nostalgia and Spatial Cosplay: Replica Merchandise and Place in Fandom's Material Cultures
- Part 2 When Is Nostalgia?
- 5 A Nostalgic Exception: Warren Beatty's Star Performance in Rules Don't Apply
- 6 The Past as aTemporal Free-Zone: The Nostalgic 1970s in Contemporary Crime Film and Television
- 7 On the Limits of Nostalgia: Understanding the Marketplace for Remaking and Rebooting the Hollywood Musical
- 8 "I'm Going to My Friends . . .I'm Going Home"Contingent Nostalgia in Netflix's Stranger Things
- Part 3 The Politics of the Past
- 9 A Confrontation with History: Re-Viewing the Horror Film Sources of Get Out
- 10 "Why Can't We Go Backwards, for Once?": Nostalgia, Utopia, and Science Fiction in Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One
- 11 Replaying Cowboys and Indians: Controlled and Commercial Nostalgia in Westworld
- 12 Contradictory Reminiscences: Post-9/11 Cold War Nostalgia, The Americans, and Deutschland 83/86
- Part 4 Not My Nostalgia
- 13 Remembering It Well: Nostalgia, Cinema, Fracture
- 14 Nostalgia Ain't What It Used to Be
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781438483504
- 1438483503
- OCLC:
- 1235905828
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