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Media and nostalgia : yearning for the past, present and future / edited by Katharina Niemeyer.

Contributor(s): Niemeyer, Katharina, 1980- [editor.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Palgrave Macmillan memory studies: Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014Description: xiv, 241 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781349477500 (paperback); 9781137375872 (hardback); 1137375876 (hardback).Subject(s): Mass media -- Social aspects | Nostalgia -- Social aspects | Collective memory | Media (Ancient kingdom) -- Psychological aspectsDDC classification: 302.23 Summary: Media and Nostalgia takes a closer look at the recent nostalgia boom and the relationship between media and nostalgia more generally; for example, digital photography that adopts a vintage style, the success of films such as The Artist and television series such as Mad Men, revivals of past music, fashion, and video games. However, this boom is not simply a fascination with the past; rather, it hints at something more profound. Expressions of nostalgia indicate a double helix type phenomenon with slower reactions to ever-faster technologies, and the possibility of an escape from the current crisis into a middle status of wanderlust (Fernweh) and a specific form of nostalgia such as homesickness. This collection explores, with a critical lens, the ways in which various media produce narratives of nostalgia, how they trigger nostalgic emotions and how they can in fact be a creative projection space in themselves-- Provided by publisher
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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Media and Nostalgia takes a closer look at the recent nostalgia boom and the relationship between media and nostalgia more generally; for example, digital photography that adopts a vintage style, the success of films such as The Artist and television series such as Mad Men, revivals of past music, fashion, and video games. However, this boom is not simply a fascination with the past; rather, it hints at something more profound. Expressions of nostalgia indicate a double helix type phenomenon with slower reactions to ever-faster technologies, and the possibility of an escape from the current crisis into a middle status of wanderlust (Fernweh) and a specific form of nostalgia such as homesickness. This collection explores, with a critical lens, the ways in which various media produce narratives of nostalgia, how they trigger nostalgic emotions and how they can in fact be a creative projection space in themselves-- Provided by publisher

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Morena La Barba, University of Geneva, Switzerland Thibaut Bardon, Audencia Nantes School of Management, France Gil Bartholeyns, University Lille III, France Emmanuelle Fantin, CELSA, Paris IV Sorbonne, France Philippe Le Guern, University of Nantes, France Maël Guesdon, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France Itzhak Goldberg, University of Saint-Etienne, France Aline Hartemann, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France Ute Holl, University of Basel, Switzerland Andrew Hoskins, University of Glasgow, UK Emmanuel Josserand, University of Geneva, Switzerland Yala Kisukidi, University of Geneva, Switzerland Emily Keightley, Loughborough University, UK Katharina Niemeyer, French Press Institute/CARISM, Pantheon-Assas University, Paris 2, France Michael Pickering, Loughborough University, UK John Potts, Macquarie University, Sydney David P. Pierson, University of Southern Maine, USA Giuseppina Sapio, University of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle), France Dominik Schrey, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany Florence Villesèche, University of Geneva, Switzerland Daniela Wentz, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany