Screening American Nostalgia
Essays on Pop Culture Constructions of Past Times
Published on 9. August 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
217 pages
978-1-4766-8074-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines American screen culture and its power to create and sustain values. Looking specifically at the ways in which nostalgia colors the visions of American life, essays explore contemporary American ideology as it is created and sustained by the screen. Nostalgia is omnipresent, selling a version of America that arguably never existed. Current socio-cultural challenges are played out onscreen and placed within the historical milieu through a nostalgic lens which is tempered by contemporary conservatism. Essays reveal not only the visual catalog of recognizable motifs but also how these are used to temper the uncertainty of contemporary crises. Media covered spans from 1939's Gone with the Wind, to Stranger Things, The Americans, Twin Peaks, the Fallout franchise and more.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Jefferson, NC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
15 photos, notes, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
361 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4766-8074-3 (9781476680743)
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Persons
Susan Flynn is the director of Educore, the education research center of the Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland, an associate researcher at University College Dublin and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the United Kingdom. She specializes in digital screen culture, equality and pedagogy. Antonia Mackay is a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom. She specializes in American literature and culture, twentieth and twenty-first century literature and cultural and media studies.
Content
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Nostalgia, an Enduring Lens
Susan Flynn and Antonia Mackay
"No more than a dream remembered": Gone with the Wind, Nostalgia and the Old South Plantation Imaginary
David Anderson
Western Nostalgia and the Cautionary Tale in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Scott Pearce
"Never start a fight, always finish it": Police Corruption and Public Outrage in Clint Eastwood's Changeling
Brennan Thomas
Stranger Things in Strange Times: Nostalgia, Surveillance and Temporality
Antonia Mackay
"-Super-secret spies, living next door": Family and Soft Power in The Americans
Barbara Miceli
In the Engine Room of the Hyperreal: Nostalgia as Commodity Culture
Leander Reeves
Twin Peaks: The Return and the Gothic of Nostalgic Television
Joel Hawkes
Regulating Sex, Surveilling Sex: Pornographic Nostalgia in The Deuce
Kelly Coyne
Day Zero: Photographs at the Epicenter of History
Jennifer Good
The Once and Future Thing: Consumption, Nostalgia and Future SF Film Dystopias
Pete Boss
What Happened to the "Good Old Days"? Nostalgic Refraction in the Fallout Franchise
Jessica Ruth Austin
About the Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Nostalgia, an Enduring Lens
Susan Flynn and Antonia Mackay
"No more than a dream remembered": Gone with the Wind, Nostalgia and the Old South Plantation Imaginary
David Anderson
Western Nostalgia and the Cautionary Tale in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Scott Pearce
"Never start a fight, always finish it": Police Corruption and Public Outrage in Clint Eastwood's Changeling
Brennan Thomas
Stranger Things in Strange Times: Nostalgia, Surveillance and Temporality
Antonia Mackay
"-Super-secret spies, living next door": Family and Soft Power in The Americans
Barbara Miceli
In the Engine Room of the Hyperreal: Nostalgia as Commodity Culture
Leander Reeves
Twin Peaks: The Return and the Gothic of Nostalgic Television
Joel Hawkes
Regulating Sex, Surveilling Sex: Pornographic Nostalgia in The Deuce
Kelly Coyne
Day Zero: Photographs at the Epicenter of History
Jennifer Good
The Once and Future Thing: Consumption, Nostalgia and Future SF Film Dystopias
Pete Boss
What Happened to the "Good Old Days"? Nostalgic Refraction in the Fallout Franchise
Jessica Ruth Austin
About the Contributors
Index