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Media and Nostalgia

Yearning for the Past, Present and Future

  • Katharina Niemeyer
Book

Part of the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies book series (PMMS)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: Media and Nostalgia

    1. Introduction: Media and Nostalgia
      Katharina Niemeyer
      Pages 1-23

  3. Analogue Nostalgias

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 25-25
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    2. Analogue Nostalgia and the Aesthetics of Digital Remediation
      Dominik Schrey
      Pages 27-38
    3. Homesick for Aged Home Movies: Why Do We Shoot Contemporary Family Videos in Old-Fashioned Ways?
      Giuseppina Sapio
      Pages 39-50
    4. The Instant Past: Nostalgia and Digital Retro Photography
      Gil Bartholeyns
      Pages 51-69
    5. Retromania: Crisis of the Progressive Ideal and Pop Music Spectrality
      Maël Guesdon, Philippe Le Guem
      Pages 70-80

  4. Exploited Nostalgias

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 81-81
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    2. Retrotyping and the Marketing of Nostalgia
      Michael Pickering, Emily Keightley
      Pages 83-94
    3. Anti-nostalgia in Citroën’s Advertising Campaign
      Emmanuelle Fantin
      Pages 95-104
    4. Networks as Media for Nostalgia in an Organisational Context
      Thibaut Bardon, Emmanuel Josserand, Florence Villesèche
      Pages 105-117
    5. Media and the Closure of the Memory Boom
      Andrew Hoskins
      Pages 118-125

  5. Screened Nostalgias

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 127-127
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    2. Nostalgia Is Not What It Used to Be: Serial Nostalgia and Nostalgic Television Series
      Katharina Niemeyer, Daniela Wentz
      Pages 129-138
    3. AMC’s Mad Men and the Politics of Nostalgia
      David Pierson
      Pages 139-151
    4. The Television Channel ARTE as a Time Machine and Matrix for European Identity
      Aline Hartemann
      Pages 152-159
    5. Nostalgia, Tinted Memories and Cinematic Historiography: On Otto Preminger’s Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
      Uta Holl
      Pages 160-175

  6. Creative Nostalgias

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 177-177
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    2. Creative Nostalgia for an Imagined Better Future: Il treno del Sud by the Migrant Filmmaker Alvaro Bizzarri
      Morena La Barba
      Pages 179-190
    3. Nostalgia and Postcolonial Utopia in Senghor’s Négritude
      Nadia Yala Kisukidi
      Pages 191-202
    4. Impossible Nostalgia
      Itzhak Goldberg
      Pages 203-211
    5. Journeys through the Past: Contempt, Nostalgia, Enigma
      John Potts
      Pages 212-222
    6. Poetic Transfer of a (Serious) Situation
      Marine Baudrillard
      Pages 223-228
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 229-241
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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

cinema Europe media memory photography politics television Utopia

Editors and affiliations

  • Katharina Niemeyer
    • 1
  1. 1.The French Press Institute/CARISMPantheon-Assas UniversityParis 2France

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