Media and Nostalgia: Yearning for the Past, Present and Future

by K. Niemeyer

Overview

Media and Nostalgia is an interdisciplinary and international exploration of media and their relation to nostalgia. Each chapter demonstrates how nostalgia has always been a media-related matter, studying also the recent nostalgia boom by analysing, among others, digital photography, television series and home videos.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349477500
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	05/28/2014
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Edition description:	1st ed. 2014
Pages:	241
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Morena La Barba, University of Geneva, Switzerland Thibaut Bardon, Audencia Nantes School of Management, France Gil Bartholeyns, University Lille III, France Emmanuelle Fantin, CELSA, Paris IV Sorbonne, France Philippe Le Guern, University of Nantes, France Maël Guesdon, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France Itzhak Goldberg, University of Saint-Etienne, France Aline Hartemann, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France Ute Holl, University of Basel, Switzerland Andrew Hoskins, University of Glasgow, UK Emmanuel Josserand, University of Geneva, Switzerland Yala Kisukidi, University of Geneva, Switzerland Emily Keightley, Loughborough University, UK Katharina Niemeyer, French Press Institute/CARISM, Pantheon-Assas University, Paris 2, France Michael Pickering, Loughborough University, UK John Potts, Macquarie University, Sydney David P. Pierson, University of Southern Maine, USA Giuseppina Sapio, University of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle), France Dominik Schrey, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany Florence Villesèche, University of Geneva, Switzerland Daniela Wentz, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany

Table of Contents

Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Media and Nostalgia; Katharina Niemeyer PART I: ANALOGUE NOSTALGIAS 1. Analogue Nostalgia and the Aesthetics of Digital Remediation; Dominik Schrey 2. Homesick for Aged Home Movies: Why Do We Shoot Contemporary Family in an Old-Fashioned Way?; Giuseppina Sapio 3. The Instant Past: Nostalgia and Digital Retro Photography; Gil Bartholeyns 4. Retromania: Crisis of Progressive Ideal and Spectrality in Pop Music; Maël Guesdon and Philippe Le Guern PART II: EXPLOITED NOSTALGIAS 5. Retrotyping and the Marketing of Nostalgia; Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley 6. Anti-Nostalgia in Citroën's Advertising Campaign; Emmanuelle Fantin 7. Networks as Media for Nostalgia in an Organisational Context; Thibaut Bardon, Emmanuel Josserand and Florence Villesèche 8. Media and the Closure of the Memory Boom; Andrew Hoskins PART III : SCREENED NOSTALGIAS 9. Nostalgia is not What it Used to be: Serial Nostalgia and Nostalgic Television Series; Katharina Niemeyer and Daniela Wentz 10. AMC's Mad Men and the Politics of Nostalgia; David P. Pierson 11. The Television Channel ARTE as a Time Machine and Matrix for European Identity; Aline Hartemann 12. Nostalgia, Tinted Memories and Cinematic Historiography: On Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse (1958); Ute Holl PART IV: CREATIVE NOSTALGIAS 13. Creative Nostalgia for an Imagined Better Future: Il treno del Sud by the Migrant Filmmaker Alvaro Bizzarri ; Morena La Barba 14. Nostalgia and Postcolonial Utopia in Senghor's Négritude ; Nadia Yala Kisukidi 15. Impossible Nostalgia; Itzhak Goldberg 16 . Journeys through the Past: Contempt, Nostalgia and Enigma; John Potts Poetic Transfer of a (Serious) Situation; Marine Baudrillard Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Media and Nostalgia draws together a series of fascinating essays that reveal the multi-faceted nature of both nostalgia and the scholarly responses to this slippery phenomenon. It displays a commitment to the meaningful interrogation of a term and a phenomenon that is often “thrown away” in general usage. This multidisciplinary collection benefits from a scope and ambition that includes reflections on nostalgia in relation to a series of media forms: television, film, advertising, print, photography, popular music, art and literature. The collection offers a productive investigation of the usefulness and multiplicity of nostalgia and its many articulations across these varied media sites.” (Amy Holdsworth, University of Glasgow, UK)

“Pervasive in movies, television series, photography and nowadays virtual spaces, nostalgia and its role in media have received little attention in scholarly literature. This book, inspiring, provocative and timely, fills an important gap. It will no doubt constitute a major contribution to memory and media studies and the study of nostalgia.” (David Berliner, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

“Nostalgia has become an almost forbidden feeling, denounced and altered by mainstream media. In reality it is often innovative and productive. The volume edited by Katharina Niemeyer is a pioneering work that tackles the question critically.” (Régis Debray, author of “Transmitting Culture” (2004))

“Nostalgia is - more and more - a very ubiquitous phenomenon and the volume ‘Media and Nostalgia' is a pioneering work on the diverse relations of both. Strong theoretical approaches and fascinating case studies are developed and discussed here, revealing the link between the nostalgic boom and the apparent acceleration of time produced by new technologies. The authors concentrate on (social) media content (but not exclusively) as well its uses and show how we ‘nostalgize’ in everyday life. The vintage and retrotrend is tackled here within its complexity and goes beyond the idea of marketing strategies by offering very new insights into the study of nostalgia. Nostalgia, as some contributors write, can nourish a critical view on the past and, sometimes, be an element of imagination a better future.” (Géraldine Poels, Institut national de l'audiovisuel, France)

Editorial Reviews

The book is divided into four sections each dealing with a distinct area of concern. … The scope of the material covered in this volume, and the rigour of the thought provoking chapters within, make this book an extremely welcome and valuable addition to the growing literature on history, memory and nostalgia.” (Mike Chopra-Gant, Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, 2016)

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