{"product_id":"screening-american-nostalgia-9781476680743","title":"Screening American Nostalgia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   This book examines American screen culture and its power to create and sustain values. Looking specifically at the ways in which nostalgia colors the visions of American life, essays explore contemporary American ideology as it is created and sustained by the screen. Nostalgia is omnipresent, selling a version of America that arguably never existed. Current socio-cultural challenges are played out onscreen and placed within the historical milieu through a nostalgic lens which is tempered by contemporary conservatism. Essays reveal not only the visual catalog of recognizable motifs but also how these are used to temper the uncertainty of contemporary crises. Media covered spans from 1939''s \u003ci\u003eGone with the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, to \u003ci\u003eStranger Things, The Americans, Twin Peaks\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eFallout\u003c\/i\u003e franchise and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\tv\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Nostalgia, an Enduring Lens\t\u003cbr\u003eSusan Flynn and Antonia Mackay\t1\u003cbr\u003e\"No more than a dream remembered\": Gone with the Wind, Nostalgia and the Old South Plantation Imaginary\t\u003cbr\u003eDavid Anderson\t13\u003cbr\u003eWestern Nostalgia and the Cautionary Tale in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance\t\u003cbr\u003eScott Pearce\t30\u003cbr\u003e\"Never start a fight, always finish it\": Police Corruption and Public Outrage in Clint Eastwood's Changeling\t\u003cbr\u003eBrennan Thomas\t50\u003cbr\u003eStranger Things in Strange Times: Nostalgia, Surveillance and Temporality\t\u003cbr\u003eAntonia Mackay\t66\u003cbr\u003e\"­Super-secret spies, living next door\": Family and Soft Power in The Americans\t\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Miceli\t80\u003cbr\u003eIn the Engine Room of the Hyperreal: Nostalgia as Commodity Culture\t\u003cbr\u003eLeander Reeves\t98\u003cbr\u003eTwin Peaks: The Return and the Gothic of Nostalgic Television\t\u003cbr\u003eJoel Hawkes\t114\u003cbr\u003eRegulating Sex, Surveilling Sex: Pornographic Nostalgia in The Deuce\t\u003cbr\u003eKelly Coyne\t133\u003cbr\u003eDay Zero: Photographs at the Epicenter of History\t\u003cbr\u003eJennifer Good\t147\u003cbr\u003eThe Once and Future Thing: Consumption, Nostalgia and Future SF Film Dystopias\t\u003cbr\u003ePete Boss\t162\u003cbr\u003eWhat Happened to the \"Good Old Days\"? Nostalgic Refraction in the Fallout Franchise\t\u003cbr\u003eJessica Ruth Austin\t185\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors\t205\u003cbr\u003eIndex\t207","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040472990039,"sku":"9781476680743","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476680743.jpg?v=1750946865","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/screening-american-nostalgia-9781476680743","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}