Uses of the Past in Contemporary Popular Culture: Pop Nostalgia?

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303154739X
• ISBN13: 9783031547393
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"