The uses of the past in contemporary Western popular culture

• Titel: The uses of the past in contemporary Western popular culture
• Titelzusatz: nostalgia, politics, lifecycles, mediations, and materialities
• Mitwirkende: Becker, Tobias [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Georgiou, Dion [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: Tobias Becker, Dion Georgiou (editors)
• Verlagsort: Cham, Switzerland
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 353 Seiten)
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
• ISBN: 978-3-031-54740-9
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• K10plus-PPN: 1902430751
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Overview -- Chapter 1: 'Do You Know How Nostalgia Works?' Pop Culture and the Uses of the Past -- Nostalgia -- Pop Nostalgia -- Uses of the Past Beyond Nostalgia -- The Parameters of This Book -- The Emphases of This Book -- Politics -- Lifecycles -- Mediation -- Materialities -- Bibliography -- Part II: Politics -- Chapter 2: Politics: The Use of Nostalgia in Political and Pop Cultural Criticism -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Nostalgia Is a Feeling -- What Nostalgia Is, and Isn't -- "Don't be so emotional…": Dismissing Nostalgia -- Hold on to That Feeling -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Longing for Schimanski. On the Process of Deindustrialization in the Ruhr in Popular Culture -- Schimanski as a Tragic Hero from a Recent Past -- "Schimanski-Land": The Ruhr in the Schimanski Movies -- Schimanski and the Image of the Ruhr -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: From Fried Chicken to Kimchi Grits: Nostalgia for Southern Food Beyond the Lost Cause -- Beyond the Lost Cause -- Mary Mac's Tea Room: Nostalgia for History -- The Swan Coach House Restaurant: Personal Memory, Institutional History, and Performative Play -- Revival: Family History and Personal Nostalgia -- Empire State South -- Bibliography -- Part III: Lifecycles -- Chapter 6: Generation: Nostalgia and Life Cycles -- Tin Pan Alley and the Phonograph -- Rock and Oldies -- Retro TV -- Cohort Memory, Pop Culture, and Nostalgia -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Remaking the Hegemonic British 1960s' Male Icon for the New Millennium -- Introduction -- Masculinity in Crisis: Nostalgia for a 'Simpler Time'? -- Bring Back Michael Caine! -- What Is a Remake … and Why Remake? -- Alfie Then and Now -- Sleuth Then and Now -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.