Nostalgia, Anxiety, Politics
Media and Performing Arts in Egypt, Central-Eastern Europe, and Russia
By: Tetyana Dzyadevych (Editor)
Paperback | 31 January 2025
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This volume shows that the cultural production of nostalgia is a major tool for structuring feelings of resentment and anxiety. The current volume is concerned with collective nostalgia as it has been elicited, channeled, and weaponized by media production agents. The book aims to analyze how the performing arts and media (music, cinema, TV, etc.) generate and shape the feeling of collective nostalgia. It shows how the cultural production of nostalgia reflects distinct social-political contexts and serves particular political purposes. The collective monograph prioritizes cases from the post-Soviet context. However, the authors do not argue that the collapse of the socialist bloc in general, and the USSR in particular, has established some unique nostalgic precedent. The book claims that mechanisms of producing nostalgia and marshaling it for political purposes are broadly similar in most (modern or postmodern) settings. It is not our intent to demonize Russia, nor do we want Russia to be our dominant frame of reference, even if, in most of our cases here, 'nolens volens' appeared first in Russia-centric post-Soviet discourse. The "Russian bloc" has been placed in the second part of the book in order to give primacy to non-Russian subjects.
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"Nostalgia, Anxiety, Politics: Media and Performing Arts in Egypt, Central-Eastern Europe, and Russia", edited by Tetyana Dzyadevycz, is an innovative interdisciplinary collection of essays that probes the complexities of collective nostalgia. Dzyadevycz brings together a diverse group of scholars who open new avenues for analyzing the aesthetics of nostalgia across historical and contemporary socio-political contexts, with case studies ranging from Egypt to the post-Socialist bloc, including Romania, former Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. The volume contributors examine a wide array of media-film, music, digital photography, home videos, archival footage, circus arts, contemporary television series, and political campaign videos-to question the generation, channeling, and weaponization of nostalgia by media production agents. The book sheds light on the surprising and powerful ways in which the aesthetics of nostalgia shape contemporary political processes, offering insights into the global resurgence of populism and authoritarianism. It serves as a poignant reminder of how the manipulation of collective nostalgia through various media forms can influence contemporary political landscapes and shape the future.
Dr. Maria Khotimsky
Department of Global Languages
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building on the wave of work on the culture and history of emotions and drawing on the seminal work of Svetlana Boym, this extraordinary book shows us the possibilities for the study of nostalgia. With a focus on post-communist anxieties, the project explores other areas as well - including an inciting perspective on Soviet nostalgia in Egypt. The texts collected by Tatyana Dzyadevych allow us to evaluate the construction of our present as a place of sadness and grief for a past that did never happen.
Prof. Dr. Jos© MarÂa Faraldo Jarillo
Departamento Historia moderna e historia contempor¡nea
Facultad de Geografia e Historia
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
ISBN: 9798881901325
Series: Series in Critical Media Studies
Published: 31st January 2025
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 318
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Vernon Art and Science
Dimensions (cm): 22.86 x 15.24 x 1.7
Weight (kg): 0.43
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