The Uses of the Past in Contemporary Western Popular Culture : Nostalgia, Politics, Lifecycles, Mediations, and Materialities - Tobias Becker

The Uses of the Past in Contemporary Western Popular Culture

Nostalgia, Politics, Lifecycles, Mediations, and Materialities

By: Tobias Becker (Editor), Dion Georgiou (Editor)

Hardcover | 28 September 2024

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This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the different ways in which the past remains present in Western popular culture in the twenty-first century. It combines theoretical analyses with case study-based chapters focusing on examples from Britain, the US, and Germany, among other countries. In doing so, it pushes beyond a simplistic and monolithic conception of what 'nostalgia' is to allow for a more nuanced and varied conceptualisation of this phenomenon, and to also incorporate other ways of understanding the invoking or inclusion of different histories within cultural objects, formats, and practices.

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