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Mediated Nostalgia
Individual Memory and Contemporary Mass Media
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2014
Summary
Considering the current rash of film remakes, vintage video game downloads, and box sets of bygone television shows, media today is obsessed with nostalgia. Instead of presenting a past that functions as an adaptive mirror with which we can compare our contemporary situation, the past is instead presented as an individualized version that transfixes us as uncritical citizens of our own culture. Mediated Nostalgia: Individual Memory and Contemporary Mass Media argues that the cultural implication of a cross-media eternal return to nostalgia is an increasing reliance on defining who we are as people and societies by what media we consumed as children. The unblinking eye toward the past knows no progress, or at the very least, does not employ the past to compare and adaptively engage with the present or future. Examining film, literature, television, and video games, Ryan Lizardi tackles the idea of why that strong sense of nostalgia is such a popular tactic for the media industry, and why it is problematic.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-9621-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-9622-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
159
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1 Introduction to the Perpetual Individual Nostalgic’s Playlist Past No access Pages 1 - 36
2 The Explosion of Digital Archiving Nostalgic Access No access Pages 37 - 64
3 The Zombie Television Series No access Pages 65 - 82
4 Downloading and Playing an Explicit and Implicit Past No access Pages 83 - 114
5 The Epistemology of the Remake No access Pages 115 - 136
