Screening American Nostalgia: Essays on Pop Culture Constructions of Past Times Flynn Susan
Screening American Nostalgia: Essays on Pop Culture Constructions of Past Times Flynn Susan This book examines American screen culture and its power to create and sustain values. Nostalgia is…
Specifikacia Screening American Nostalgia: Essays on Pop Culture Constructions of Past Times Flynn Susan
Screening American Nostalgia: Essays on Pop Culture Constructions of Past Times Flynn Susan
This book examines American screen culture and its power to create and sustain values. Nostalgia is omnipresent, selling a version of America that arguably never existed. 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.
Essays reveal not only the visual catalog of recognizable motifs but also how these are used to temper the uncertainty of contemporary crises. Current socio-cultural challenges are played out onscreen and placed within the historical milieu through a nostalgic lens which is tempered by contemporary conservatism. Media covered spans from 1939's Gone with the Wind, to Stranger Things, The Americans, Twin Peaks, the Fallout franchise and