Neuerscheinung: Tobias Becker, Dion Georgiou (eds.), The Uses of the Past in Contemporary Western Popular Culture Nostalgia, Politics, Lifecycles, Mediations, and Materialities (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 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.
Link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-54740-9