| Description |
1 online resource |
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Routledge research in anticipation and futures |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Everybody's still just wild about nostalgia -- Nostalgia versus utopia -- A Blochian approach -- What is the contemporary? -- Overview -- Notes -- Part I -- Chapter 1: Nostalgia: Is it really not what it used to be? -- A medical origin: longing for home -- Modern nostalgia: longing for lost time -- Nostalgia versus modernity -- Modern technologies of nostalgia -- Postmodern nostalgia: what longing? -- Amnesiac nostalgia |
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Consumption and longing -- Nostalgia for sale -- Technology and the nostalgia mode -- Criticisms of theories of the nostalgia mode -- Current debate -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Memory, nostalgia, utopia and time -- Defining utopia -- Ideology versus utopia -- Utopia: glorious past or glittering future? -- Marcuse and Bloch: psychoanalysis, remembrance and the utopian impulse -- Marcuse and remembrance -- Bloch and the not yet -- A false binary? -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Nostalgia as 'gold-bearing rubble' -- Bloch's ideology critique -- Bloch's non-contemporaneous: traces of hope |
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Bloch, Marcuse and Derrida: ghosts which need redeeming -- Benjamin's shock of recognition -- Recent complementary approaches -- Introducing Part II -- Notes -- Part II -- Interlude 1: The hole in the whole: utopia contra instrumental reason -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The 'strange magic' of Style Rookie and Rookiemag -- Introducing Tavi -- Defining the text -- Notes on a new nostalgia -- A Jamesonian reading -- A Blochian reading -- Metamodern nostalgia -- Notes -- Interlude 2: A space outside: utopia as negation -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Memories of longing in The Virgin Suicides |
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Jameson and the nostalgia film -- A Jamesonian reading -- Jameson versus Bloch: a methodological reflection -- A Blochian reading: the gold in the rubble -- Rebellion, negation and the teenage -- Notes -- Interlude 3: Marshalling the past: utopia versus once upon a time -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Nostalgia in photographs of Detroit's 'abandoned spaces' -- Detroit 'abandoned spaces' photography: the current debate -- A Benjaminian reading of Camilo José Vergara's American Ruins -- A Jamesonian reading of Detroit' abandoned spaces' photography |
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A Blochian reading of Detroit 'abandoned spaces' photography -- The symbolic allure of abandonment -- Nostalgia for the vertical -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Nicola Sayers recently completed her PhD at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 18, 2020) |
| Subject |
Nostalgia -- United States
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Nostalgia in mass media.
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Utopias in mass media.
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NATURE -- Ecology.
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
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Nostalgia
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Nostalgia in mass media
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Utopias in mass media
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019033141 |
| ISBN |
9780367134990 |
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0367134993 |
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9780429631023 |
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0429631022 |
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9780429634000 |
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0429634005 |
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9780429632518 |
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0429632517 |
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