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Mediated Nostalgia - Individual Memory and Contemporary Mass Media (Hardcover)
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Mediated Nostalgia - Individual Memory and Contemporary Mass Media (Hardcover)
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Considering the current rash of film remakes, vintage video game
downloads, and box sets of bygone television shows, media today is
obsessed with nostalgia. Instead of presenting a past that
functions as an adaptive mirror with which we can compare our
contemporary situation, the past is instead presented as an
individualized version that transfixes us as uncritical citizens of
our own culture. Mediated Nostalgia: Individual Memory and
Contemporary Mass Media argues that the cultural implication of a
cross-media eternal return to nostalgia is an increasing reliance
on defining who we are as people and societies by what media we
consumed as children. The unblinking eye toward the past knows no
progress, or at the very least, does not employ the past to compare
and adaptively engage with the present or future. Examining film,
literature, television, and video games, Ryan Lizardi tackles the
idea of why that strong sense of nostalgia is such a popular tactic
for the media industry, and why it is problematic.
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