The Promise of Nostalgia : Reminiscence, Longing and Hope in Contemporary American Culture Hardback
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:216 pages, 1 Tables, black and white; 18 Halftones, black and white; 18 Illustrations, black and whi
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:23/01/2020
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- ISBN:9780367134983
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:216 pages, 1 Tables, black and white; 18 Halftones, black and white; 18 Illustrations, black and whi
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:23/01/2020
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- ISBN:9780367134983
