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Was it yesterday? : nostalgia in contemporary film and television /
"Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television. Explores the rise of cultural nostalgia in contemporary film and television, from reboots of classic films and TV series like Westworld and the Star Wars franchise to series like Stranger Things and The Americans"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: History in Reverse
- Works Cited
- Part 1: What Is Nostalgia?
- 1 Clearing Up the Haze: Toward a Definition of the "Nostalgia Film" Genre
- The "Nostalgia Film"?
- Affective, Peripheral, Representational, and Narrative Nostalgias
- Nostalgia and Identity
- The Return of History
- Works Cited
- 2 Midcentury Metamodern: Returning Home in the Twenty-First-Century Nostalgia Film
- Works Cited
- 3 Touched by Time: Memories of the Faded Star
- A Haunted Study
- She Sings Again!
- Works Cited
- 4 Mimetic Tangible Nostalgia and Spatial Cosplay: Replica Merchandise and Place in Fandom's Material Cultures
- Mimetic Tangible Nostalgia
- Mimetic Tangible Nostalgia and Spatial Cosplay
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Part 2: When Is Nostalgia?
- 5 A Nostalgic Exception: Warren Beatty's Star Performance in Rules Don't Apply
- Beatty as Hughes: Star Persona
- The Star Director's Nostalgic Performance
- Beatty's Adagietto
- Works Cited
- 6 The Past as a Temporal Free-Zone: The Nostalgic 1970s in Contemporary Crime Film and Television
- Works Cited
- 7 On the Limits of Nostalgia: Understanding the Marketplace for Remaking and Rebooting the Hollywood Musical
- Nostalgia as Appeal and Marketing Force
- The Limits of Nostalgia
- Three Cases: Nostalgia, Multiplication, and Transmedia Storytelling
- Nostalgia and Transmedia Storytelling Revisited
- Works Cited
- 8 "I'm Going to My Friends ... I'm Going Home": Contingent Nostalgia in Netflix's Stranger Things
- Stranger Things: Making America Great ... Again?
- At Home with Freaks and Outcasts: Stranger Things and the Surrogate Family
- Reconstructing Childhood: Transforming and Critiquing the Kids' Ensemble
- Turning Nostalgia Upside Down?
- Works Cited
- Part 3: The Politics of the Past
- 9 A Confrontation with History: Re-Viewing the Horror Film Sources of Get Out
- Cultural Readings: Differing Perspectives
- The Game of References: Theoretical Models
- Re-viewing Horror Film Motifs: The Old Dark House and the White Patriarchal Family
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- To Lose the Self
- The Plot of Get Out
- No Space beyond the Screen
- The Sunken Place: Entrapment
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- 10 "Why Can't We Go Backwards, for Once?" Nostalgia, Utopia, and Science Fiction in Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One
- Nostalgia: It Was Acceptable in the '80s
- Science Fiction, Utopia
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- 11 Replaying Cowboys and Indians: Controlled and Commercial Nostalgia in Westworld
- Putting the West into Westworld
- When Are We? Time and Linearity
- Returning Home
- Imagined Futures
- Works Cited
- 12 Contradictory Reminiscences: Post-9/11 Cold War Nostalgia, The Americans, and Deutschland 83/86
- The Americans