The promise of nostalgia: reminiscence, longing and hope in contemporary American culture

"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 nosta...

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Main Author: Sayers, Nicola ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York Routledge 2020
Series:Routledge research in anticipation and futures
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9780367134990
9780429631023
9780429634000
9780429632518
DOI:10.4324/9780367134990

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