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Screening American Nostalgia - Essays on Pop Culture Constructions of Past Times (Paperback)
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Screening American Nostalgia - Essays on Pop Culture Constructions of Past Times (Paperback)
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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.
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