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Screening American nostalgia : essays on pop culture constructions of past times
- Title
- Screening American nostalgia : essays on pop culture constructions of past times / edited by Susan Flynn and Antonia Mackay.
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | MFL 21-3216 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- viii, 209 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This book examines American screen culture and its power to create and sustain values. Looking specifically at the ways in which nostalgia colors the visions of American life, essays explore contemporary American ideology as it is created and sustained by the screen. Nostalgia is omnipresent, selling a version of America that arguably never existed. Current socio-cultural challenges are played out onscreen and placed within the historical milieu through a nostalgic lens which is tempered by contemporary conservatism. Essays reveal not only the visual catalog of recognizable motifs but also how these are used to temper the uncertainty of contemporary crises. Media covered spans from 1939's Gone with the Wind, to Stranger Things, The Americans, Twin Peaks, the Fallout franchise and more"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: nostalgia, an enduring lens /Susan Flynn and Antonia Mackay -- "No more than a dream remembered": Gone with the wind, nostalgia and the old South plantation imaginary / David Anderson -- Western nostalgia and the cautionary tale in John Ford's The man who shot Liberty Valance / Scott Pearce -- "Never start a fight, always finish it": police porruption and public outrage in Clint Eastwood's Changeling / Brennan Thomas -- Stranger things in strange times: nostalgia, surveillance and temporality / Antonia Mackay -- "Super-secret spies, living next door": family and soft power in The Americans / Barbara Miceli -- In the engine room of the hyperreal: nostalgia as commodity culture / Leander Reeves -- Twin peaks: the return and the gothic of nostalgic television / Joel Hawkes -- Regulating sex, surveilling sex: pornographic nostalgia in The deuce / Kelly Coyne -- Day zero: photographs at the epicenter of history / Jennifer Good -- The once and future thing: consumption, nostalgia and future SF film dystopias / Pete Boss -- What happened to the "good old days"? nostalgic refraction in the Fallout franchise / Jessica Ruth Austin.
- Call Number
- MFL 21-3216
- ISBN
- 9781476680743
- 1476680744
- LCCN
- 2021031376
- OCLC
- 1263247240
- Title
- Screening American nostalgia : essays on pop culture constructions of past times / edited by Susan Flynn and Antonia Mackay.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Flynn, Susan, 1971- editor.Mackay, Antonia, editor.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 21-3216