The Promise of Nostalgia : Reminiscence, Longing and Hope in Contemporary American Culture Paperback / softback
by Nicola Sayers
Part of the Routledge Research in Anticipation and Futures series
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The Promise of Nostalgia analyses a range of texts - including The Virgin Suicides, both the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides' and Sofia Coppola's screen adaptation, photography of Detroit's 'abandoned spaces', and blogger Tavi Gevinson's media output - to explore nostalgia as a prominent affect in contemporary American cultural production.
Counter to the prevalent caricature of nostalgia as anti-future, the book proposes a more nuanced reading of its stakes and meanings.
Instead of understanding it as evidence of the absence of utopia it contends that there is a masked utopian impulse in this nostalgia 'mode' and critical potential in what has typically been dismissed as ideological.
This book will be of interest to scholars, graduate students and upper-level undergraduate students interested in contemporary culture, cultural theory, media studies, the Frankfurt School, utopian studies and American literature and culture.
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- Pages:228 pages, 18 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:30/09/2021
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- ISBN:9781032175867
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:228 pages, 18 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:30/09/2021
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- ISBN:9781032175867
