Media and Nostalgia [electronic resource] : Yearning for the Past, Present and Future /
Niemeyer, K.author.
Niemeyer, Katharina,1980-editor of compilation.
Media and Nostalgia is an interdisciplinary and international exploration of media and their relation to nostalgia. Each chapter demonstrates how nostalgia has always been a media-related matter, studying also the recent nostalgia boom by analysing, among others, digital photography, television series and home videos.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Media and Nostalgia; Part I: Analogue Nostalgias; 1 Analogue Nostalgia and the Aesthetics of Digital Remediation; 2 Homesick for Aged Home Movies: Why Do We Shoot Contemporary Family Videos in Old-Fashioned Ways?; 3 The Instant Past: Nostalgia and Digital Retro Photography; 4 Retromania: Crisis of the Progressive Ideal and Pop Music Spectrality; Part II Exploited Nostalgias; 5 Retrotyping and the Marketing of Nostalgia; 6 Anti-nostalgia in Citroën's Advertising Campaign
7 Networks as Media for Nostalgia in an Organisational Context8 Media and the Closure of the Memory Boom; Part III: Screened Nostalgias; 9 Nostalgia Is Not What It Used to Be: Serial Nostalgia and Nostalgic Television Series; 10 AMC's Mad Men and the Politics of Nostalgia; 11 The Television Channel ARTE as a Time Machine and Matrix for European Identity; 12 Nostalgia, Tinted Memories and Cinematic Historiography: On Otto Preminger's Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse (1958); Part IV: Creative Nostalgias
13 Creative Nostalgia for an Imagined Better Future: Il treno del Sud by the Migrant Filmmaker Alvaro Bizzarri14 Nostalgia and Postcolonial Utopia in Senghor's Négritude; 15 Impossible Nostalgia; 16 Journeys through the Past: Contempt, Nostalgia, Enigma; Poetic Transfer of a (Serious) Situation; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Media and Nostalgia is an interdisciplinary and international exploration of media and their relation to nostalgia. Each chapter demonstrates how nostalgia has always been a media-related matter, studying also the recent nostalgia boom by analysing, among others, digital photography, television series and home videos.
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Popular Science, general.