ISBN:
9783031547409
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 353 Seiten)
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Keywords:
Popkultur
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Nostalgie
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Geschichtsbewusstsein
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Westliche Welt
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Overview -- Chapter 1: 'Do You Know How Nostalgia Works?' Pop Culture and the Uses of the Past -- Nostalgia -- Pop Nostalgia -- Uses of the Past Beyond Nostalgia -- The Parameters of This Book -- The Emphases of This Book -- Politics -- Lifecycles -- Mediation -- Materialities -- Bibliography -- Part II: Politics -- Chapter 2: Politics: The Use of Nostalgia in Political and Pop Cultural Criticism -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Nostalgia Is a Feeling -- What Nostalgia Is, and Isn't -- "Don't be so emotional…": Dismissing Nostalgia -- Hold on to That Feeling -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Longing for Schimanski. On the Process of Deindustrialization in the Ruhr in Popular Culture -- Schimanski as a Tragic Hero from a Recent Past -- "Schimanski-Land": The Ruhr in the Schimanski Movies -- Schimanski and the Image of the Ruhr -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: From Fried Chicken to Kimchi Grits: Nostalgia for Southern Food Beyond the Lost Cause -- Beyond the Lost Cause -- Mary Mac's Tea Room: Nostalgia for History -- The Swan Coach House Restaurant: Personal Memory, Institutional History, and Performative Play -- Revival: Family History and Personal Nostalgia -- Empire State South -- Bibliography -- Part III: Lifecycles -- Chapter 6: Generation: Nostalgia and Life Cycles -- Tin Pan Alley and the Phonograph -- Rock and Oldies -- Retro TV -- Cohort Memory, Pop Culture, and Nostalgia -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Remaking the Hegemonic British 1960s' Male Icon for the New Millennium -- Introduction -- Masculinity in Crisis: Nostalgia for a 'Simpler Time'? -- Bring Back Michael Caine! -- What Is a Remake … and Why Remake? -- Alfie Then and Now -- Sleuth Then and Now -- Conclusion -- Bibliography
Abstract:
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the different ways in which the past remains present in Western popular culture in the twenty-first century. It combines theoretical analyses with case study-based chapters focusing on examples from Britain, the US, and Germany, among other countries. In doing so, it pushes beyond a simplistic and monolithic conception of what 'nostalgia' is to allow for a more nuanced and varied conceptualisation of this phenomenon, and to also incorporate other ways of understanding the invoking or inclusion of different histories within cultural objects, formats, and practices.
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