Paranoia and Nostalgia in American Popular Culture, 1980-2020.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cantrell, Owen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture.

Paranoia--Political aspects--United States.

Paranoia.

Nostalgia--Political aspects--United States.

Nostalgia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

In this book, Owen Cantrell focuses on politics and popular culture in the United States from 1980 to 2020 to argue that the twin structures of feeling of nostalgia and paranoia offered a pathway to address the changed relationship to history in this era that were a result of the backlash politics to the gains of the civil rights movement(s).

Contents:

Acknowledgements Introduction: "A Structure of Feeling": Nostalgia and Paranoia since 1980 1. "Us and Them": The Structure of Paranoia 2. Nostalgic Mourning in America 3. Family Relations in the 1980s 4. The End of the World in the 1990s 5. Paranoia and Security in the 2000s 6. Historical Nostalgia and Paranoia in the 2010s Conclusion: Loss, Reckoning, and Rage in the 2020s and Beyond Bibliography About the Author Index

ISBN:

979-88-8189-603-4

1-9787-6518-5

979-82-16-25891-9

9781978765184

OCLC:

1551394322