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Reinventing Childhood Nostalgia: Books, Toys, and Contemporary Media Culture book cover

1st Edition

Reinventing Childhood Nostalgia Books, Toys, and Contemporary Media Culture

Edited By Elisabeth Wesseling Copyright 2018
370 Pages
by Routledge

370 Pages
by Routledge

370 Pages
by Routledge
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While Romantic-era concepts of childhood nostalgia have been understood as the desire to retrieve the ephemeral mindset of the child, this collection proposes that the emergence of digital media has altered this reflective gesture towards the past. No longer is childhood nostalgia reliant on individual memory. Rather, it is associated through contemporary convergence culture with the commodities... Read more

CONTENTS



Acknowledgments



List of Figures





Introduction, Elisabeth Wesseling





Part I: The Cultural Dynamics of Cross-Generational (Re-)appropriation



1 Historical Roots of Consumption-Based Nostalgia for Childhood in the US., Gary Cross



2 Nostalgia or Innovation? The Adaptation of Dutch Children’s Books into Films,



Helma van Lierop,



3 Superheroes and Identity: The Role of Nostalgia in Comic Book Culture, Carol Tilley



4 (Re-)Constructing Childhood Memories: Nostalgia, Creativity



and the Expanded Worlds of the Lego Fan Community, Lincoln Geraghty





Part II: Childhood Nostalgia and Memorial Politics



5 Nostalgic Panoramas of Childhood: Toy Objects in Ireland (1851-1909), Vanessa Rutherford



6 Making Children’s ‘Classics’: Making Past Childhoods Children’s ‘Classics’ as Sites for Memory Politics and Nostalgia, Helle Strandgaard Jensen



7 Propaganda and Nostalgia: Constructing Memories about the German Democratic Republic for Secondary School Children, Luke Springman



8 Communist Childhoods and Nostalgia: A Cultural Analysis of Online Remembrance Strategies (2006-2011), Codruta Pohrib



9 Lost in Nostalgia: Images of Childhood in Photo Books for Children,



Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer





Part III: Modalities of Nostalgia



10 Looking for Asymmetries: A Theoretical Approach to Childhood Nostalgia in Pre-Figurative Culture, Mariano Narodowski



11 Perverse Nostalgia: Child Sex Abuse as Trauma Commodity in Neo-Victorian Fiction,



Mel Kohlke



12 "Scared Straight" and Beyond: The Presumption of Teenaged Guilt and the Perpetuation of Defeated Paradigms, Joshua Garrison



13 Teenage Nosta

Biography

Elisabeth Wesseling is Director of the Centre for Gender and Diversity at Maastricht University, The Netherlands.

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