Towards A Bodily Analysis of Postmodern Nostalgia: Dancer, Spy and Monster in Recent Cold War Nostalgia Films
Journal: Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University)
Year: 2020

This thesis reads the recent Cold War nostalgia films and explores both the historicizing potential of nostalgia films and how they contribute to the memory studies of the Cold War. The end of the Cold War, though ironically proclaimed as ‘the end of history,’ makes it necessary to ask the philosophical question about our place in history as we have since entered into an increasingly complex social-political landscape. The emergent political discourse of Cold War nostalgia signals the difficulty