Description
Book Synopsis"Screening Nostalgia provides a cogent summary of the history of America's love affair with nostalgia as well as offering useful examples of how to mobilize nostalgia in critically sophisticated ways. The text is engaging and accessible and should have wide appeal, particularly among scholars and students of film and American cultural history."
Trade Review "Screening Nostalgia provides a cogent summary of the history of America’s love affair with nostalgia as well as offering useful examples of how to mobilize nostalgia in critically sophisticated ways. The text is engaging and accessible and should have wide appeal, particularly among scholars and students of film and American cultural history." · Southwest Journal of Cultures
"The excellence of the scholarship (the bibliography alone covers a daunting range of fields from seventeenth-century medical case histories through to cutting edge critical theory) and the persuasive arguments which she presents do indeed develop a thorough and solid foundation for her theory of nostalgia in film, which can become an indispensible springboard for future research." · Scope
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Setting the Stage: The History of Nostalgia
Chapter 2. The Fifties: Nostalgia’s Privileged Object and the Origins of its Dominant American Strain
Chapter 3. The Nostalgia Film in Practice and Theory
Chapter 4. Sin City: Reading the Tails of a Populuxe Prop
Chapter 5. Far From Heaven: Creative Agency, Social History and the Expressive Potential of Costume
Chapter 6. The Aviator: Deliberate Archaism, Technicolor Aesthetics and Style as Substance
Conclusion: The Good German and the Good of Nostalgia
Filmography
References
Index
