The Promise of Nostalgia: Reminiscence, Longing and Hope in Contemporary

Description: 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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EAN: 9780367134983

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Item Length: 23.6 cm

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Book Title: The Promise of Nostalgia: Reminiscence, Longing and Hope in Contemporary American Culture

Item Height: 234mm

Item Width: 156mm

Author: Nicola Sayers

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Topic: Engineering & Technology, Literature

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Publication Year: 2020

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 458g

Number of Pages: 216 Pages