Mediated Nostalgia

Author : Ryan Lizardi
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739196229

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Mediated Nostalgia by Ryan Lizardi Pdf

Considering the current rash of film remakes, vintage video game downloads, and box sets of bygone television shows, media today is obsessed with nostalgia. Instead of presenting a past that functions as an adaptive mirror with which we can compare our contemporary situation, the past is instead presented as an individualized version that transfixes us as uncritical citizens of our own culture. Mediated Nostalgia: Individual Memory and Contemporary Mass Media argues that the cultural implication of a cross-media eternal return to nostalgia is an increasing reliance on defining who we are as people and societies by what media we consumed as children. The unblinking eye toward the past knows no progress, or at the very least, does not employ the past to compare and adaptively engage with the present or future. Examining film, literature, television, and video games, Ryan Lizardi tackles the idea of why that strong sense of nostalgia is such a popular tactic for the media industry, and why it is problematic.

Author : Hviid Jacobsen, Michael
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529214789

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Intimations of Nostalgia by Hviid Jacobsen, Michael Pdf

Nostalgia, a complex and multi-layered emotion, has gained interest since the turn of the century in both society and academic circles. Written by an international group of scholars, this volume investigates the relationship between nostalgia and contemporary social issues from a multidisciplinary perspective. From history and political theory to marketing and media, each chapter discusses the way nostalgia has been presented within a disciplinary context and shows how it has evolved over time as a topic of research. Casting light on many recent changes in society and culture, this is an important contribution to the study of nostalgia and emotions.

Author : Kathryn Pallister
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498583060

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Netflix Nostalgia by Kathryn Pallister Pdf

Netflix Nostalgia examines Netflix as both a creator and a distributor of nostalgic content, with contributions from scholars from around the world. The chapters examine the role of nostalgia in Netflix’s brand identity, ideological messages about nostalgia in Netflix content, and audience responses to nostalgia on the Netflix platform.

Author : Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000034097

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Nostalgia Now by Michael Hviid Jacobsen Pdf

This volume explores the nature of nostalgia as an important emotion in contemporary society and social theory. Situated between the ‘sociology of emotions’ and ‘nostalgia studies’, it considers the reasons for which nostalgia appears to be becoming an increasingly significant and debated emotion in late-modern culture. With chapters offering studies of nostalgia at micro-, meso- and macro-levels of society, it offers insights into the rise to prominence of nostalgia and the attendant consequences. Thematically organised and examining the role of nostalgia on an individual level – in the lives of concrete individuals – as well as analysing its function on a more historical social level as a collective and culturally shared emotion, Nostalgia Now brings together the latest empirical and theoretical work on an important contemporary emotion and proposes new agendas for research. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, social theory, psychology and cultural studies with interests in the emotions.

Author : Lawrence Quill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781003833277

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Nostalgia and Political Theory by Lawrence Quill Pdf

In Nostalgia and Political Theory, Lawrence Quill advocates the central importance of nostalgia as a theoretical response to the ‘historic’ past and a vertiginous present. He does so by offering detailed analyses of diverse theoretical approaches, from the ancient world to the modern day, in order to reassess the relation between nostalgia and politics. Quill proposes nostalgia as an organizing concept, silently (and not so silently) influencing theorists as they construct critiques of the present or visions of the political future. Nostalgia and Political Theory surveys key contributions to nostalgic and antinostalgic thinking from across the political spectrum. Assessing the influence of photography, radio, television, and personal computing on changing conceptions of the past, Quill also considers the relation between populism, nationalism, and nostalgia. By challenging those who would dismiss nostalgia as irrational or a symptom of cultural malaise, Quill concludes by advancing the case for a liberal theory of nostalgia. Nostalgia and Political Theory will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of political theory, social theory, sociology, philosophy, political science, memory studies, and nostalgia studies.

Author : Grafton Tanner
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781913462543

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The Hours Have Lost Their Clock by Grafton Tanner Pdf

The Hours Have Lost Their Clock charts the rise of nostalgia in an era knocked out of time. In The Hours Have Lost Their Clock, Grafton Tanner charts the rise of nostalgia in an era knocked out of time. Nostalgia is the defining emotion of our age. Political leaders promise a return to yesteryear. Old movies are remade and cancelled series are rebooted. Veterans reenact past wars, while the displaced across the world long for home. But who is behind this collective ache for a home in the past? Do we need to eliminate nostalgia, or just cultivate it better? And what is at stake if we make the wrong choice? Moving from the fight over Confederate monuments to the birth of homeland security to the mourning of species extinction, Grafton Tanner traces nostalgia’s ascent in the twenty-first century, revealing its power as both a consequence of our unstable time and a defense against it. With little faith in a future of climate change and economic anxiety, many have turned to nostalgia to weather the present, while powerful elites exploit it for their own gain. An exploration into the politics of loss and yearning, The Hours Have Lost Their Clock is an urgent call to take nostalgia seriously. The very future depends on it.

Author : Georgios Abakoumkin,Jeffrey D. Green
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889713325

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Current Issues in Nostalgia Research by Georgios Abakoumkin,Jeffrey D. Green Pdf

Author : Ryan Lizardi
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498542036

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Nostalgic Generations and Media by Ryan Lizardi Pdf

Nostalgic Generations and Media: Perception of Time and Available Meaning argues that the cultural rise in nostalgic media has the multi-generational impact of making the subjective experience of time speed up for those who are nostalgic, as well as create a surrogate nostalgic identity for younger generations by continually feeding them the content of their elders. This book is recommended for scholars interested in communication, media studies, and memory/nostalgia studies.

Author : Vandana Saxena
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000422566

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Memory and Nation-Building by Vandana Saxena Pdf

Nations are built by narrating their past. Threads of common memories weave the fabric of the national culture, integrating the heterogenous communities into the idea of a single nation. In multicultural societies, the process is a messy one. Different communities remember the past from perspectives that often clash with each other. Multiple memories of a multicultural nation challenge the idea of a singular national identity and call for multiple forms of belonging. Memory and Nation-Building explores the contemporary images of World War II in Malaysian literature and the continuing significance of the conflict in the collective memory and nation-building in Malaysia. Given the multicultural nature of the nation, the War memories of Malaysia are multiple and often contradictory. In the contemporary Malaysian literature, these memories embody the search for a historical narrative that would accommodate the cultural and ethnic diversity of the country.

Author : Zhun Gu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811974946

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Screen Media and the Construction of Nostalgia in Post-Socialist China by Zhun Gu Pdf

This book traces the cultural transformation of nostalgia on the Chinese screen over the past three decades. It explores how filmmakers from different generations have engaged politically with China’s rapidly changing post-socialist society as it has been formed through three mutually constitutive frameworks: political discourse, popular culture and state-led media commercialisation. The book offers a new, critical model for understanding relationships between filmmakers, industry and the State.

Author : Michael Bull
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134516988

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Sound Moves by Michael Bull Pdf

This innovative study opens up a new area in sociological and urban studies: the aural experience of the social, mediated through mobile technologies of communication. Whilst we live in a world dominated by visual epistemologies of urban experience, Michael Bull argues that it is not surprising that the Apple iPod, a sound based technology, is the first consumer cultural icon of the twenty-first century. This book, in using the example of the Apple iPod, investigates the way in which we use sound to construct key areas of our daily lives. The author argues that the Apple iPod acts as an urban Sherpa for many of its users and in doing so joins the mobile army of technologies that many of us habitually use to accompany our daily lives. Through our use of such mobile and largely sound based devices, the book demonstrates how and why the spaces of the city are being transformed right in front of our ears.

Author : Christine Sprengler
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1845455592

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Screening Nostalgia by Christine Sprengler Pdf

Through a series of detailed visual analyses of popular films, the author demonstrates that the visual creation of 'pastness' does not necessarily sever our connection to history as is commonly claimed, but can yield new insights into the relationship between the present and the past.

Author : Grafton Tanner
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781789040234

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The Circle of the Snake by Grafton Tanner Pdf

Shocked by 9/11, the Great Recession, digital anxiety, and ecological collapse, the West suffers from nostalgia. People everywhere yearn for a utopian version of the past that never existed. Desperate for relief, many long to escape from the present. Some will stop at nothing to achieve it. In his essential new book, Grafton Tanner, author of Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts, argues that our nostalgia today is partly a consequence of the attention economy. At a time when historical literacy is crucial, and old prejudices are percolating into the present, Big Tech’s predictive algorithms are locking us into nostalgic feedback loops. The result is a precarious society with its gaze fixed on the good old days. Spanning from the ancient Sophists to Black Mirror, The Circle of the Snake is at once a reckoning with the myth of digital utopia and an incisive analysis of nostalgia as a weapon to spread fascism.

Author : Jason Sperb
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813576039

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Flickers of Film by Jason Sperb Pdf

Whether paying tribute to silent films in Hugo and The Artist or celebrating arcade games in Tron: Legacy and Wreck-It-Ralph, Hollywood suddenly seems to be experiencing a wave of intense nostalgia for outmoded technologies. To what extent is that a sincere lament for modes of artistic production that have nearly vanished in an all-digital era? And to what extent is it simply a cynical marketing ploy, built on the notion that nostalgia has always been one of Hollywood’s top-selling products? In Flickers of Film, Jason Sperb offers nuanced and unexpected answers to these questions, examining the benefits of certain types of film nostalgia, while also critiquing how Hollywood’s nostalgic representations of old technologies obscure important aspects of their histories. He interprets this affection for the prehistory and infancy of digital technologies in relation to an industry-wide anxiety about how the digital has grown to dominate Hollywood, pushing it into an uncertain creative and economic future. Yet he also suggests that Hollywood’s nostalgia for old technologies ignores the professionals who once employed them, as well as the labor opportunities that have been lost through the computerization and outsourcing of film industry jobs. Though it deals with nostalgia, Flickers of Film is strikingly cutting-edge, one of the first studies to critically examine Pixar’s role in the film industry, cinematic representations of videogames, and the economic effects of participatory culture. As he takes in everything from Terminator: Salvation to The Lego Movie, Sperb helps us see what’s distinct about this recent wave of self-aware nostalgic films—how Hollywood nostalgia today isn’t what it used to be.

Author : Howard Shubert
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780773548138

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Architecture on Ice by Howard Shubert Pdf

An architectural and cultural history of skating rinks and hockey arenas in North America.