1st Edition
The Promise of Nostalgia Reminiscence, Longing and Hope in Contemporary American Culture
By Nicola Sayers
Copyright 2020
228 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
226 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
226 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Acknowledgments
Personal Preface
Introduction
PART ONE
1 Nostalgia: Is It Really Not What It Used To Be?
2 Memory, Nostalgia, Utopia and Time
3 Nostalgia as ‘Gold-bearing Rubble’
PART TWO
Interlude 1 The Hole in the Whole: Utopia Contra Instrumental Reason
4 The ‘Strange Magic’ of Style Rookie and Rookiemag
Interlude 2 A Space Outside: Utopia as Negation
5 Memories of Longing in The Virgin Suicides
Interlude 3 Marshalling the Past: Utopia versus Once Upon a Time
6 Nostalgia in Photographs of Detroit’s ‘Abandoned Spaces’
Conclusion
Bibliography
Biography
Nicola Sayers recently completed her PhD at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK
