Media and Nostalgia

Abstract

"Media and Nostalgia takes a closer look at the recent nostalgia boom and the relationship between media and nostalgia more generally; for example, digital photography that adopts a vintage style, the success of films such as The Artist and television series such as Mad Men, revivals of past music, fashion, and video games. However, this boom is not simply a fascination with the past; rather, it hints at something more profound. Expressions of nostalgia indicate a double helix type phenomenon with slower reactions to ever-faster technologies, and the possibility of an escape from the current crisis into a middle status of wanderlust (Fernweh) and a specific form of nostalgia such as homesickness. This collection explores, with a critical lens, the ways in which various media produce narratives of nostalgia, how they trigger nostalgic emotions and how they can in fact be a creative projection space in themselves"-- Analogue nostalgia and the aesthetics of digital remediation / Dominik Schrey -- Homesick for aged home movies: why do we shoot contemporary family videos in old-fashioned ways? / Giuseppina Sapio -- The instant past: nostalgia and digital retro photography / Gil Bartholeyns -- Retromania: crisis of the progressive ideal and pop music spectrality / Maël Guesdon and Philippe Le Guern -- Retrotyping and the marketing of nostalgia / Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley -- Anti-nostalgia in Citroën's advertising campaign / Emmanuelle Fantin -- Networks as media for nostalgia in an organisational context / Thibaut Bardon, Emmanuel Josserand, and Florence Villesèche -- Media and the closure of the memory boom / Andrew Hoskins -- Nostalgia is not what it used to be: serial nostalgia and nostalgic television series / Katharina Niemeyer and Daniela Wentz -- AMC's Mad men and the politics of nostalgia / David Pierson -- The television channel ARTE as a time machine and matrix for European identity / Aline Hartemann -- Nostalgia, tinted memories, and cinematic historiography: on Otto Preminger's Bonjour tristesse (1958) / Ute Holl -- Creative nostalgia for an imagined better future: Il treno del sud by the migrant filmmaker, Alvaro Bizzarri / Morena La Barba -- Nostalgia and postcolonial utopia in Senghor's Négritude / Nadia Yala Kisukidi -- Impossible nostalgia / Itzhak Goldberg -- Journeys through the past: contempt, nostalgia, enigma / John Potts -- Poetic transfer of a (serious) situation / Marine Baudrillard.