Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Media and Nostalgia -- Part I: Analogue Nostalgias -- 1 Analogue Nostalgia and the Aesthetics of Digital Remediation -- 2 Homesick for Aged Home Movies: Why Do We Shoot Contemporary Family Videos in Old-Fashioned Ways? -- 3 The Instant Past: Nostalgia and Digital Retro Photography -- 4 Retromania: Crisis of the Progressive Ideal and Pop Music Spectrality -- Part II Exploited Nostalgias -- 5 Retrotyping and the Marketing of Nostalgia -- 6 Anti-nostalgia in Citroën's Advertising Campaign -- 7 Networks as Media for Nostalgia in an Organisational Context -- 8 Media and the Closure of the Memory Boom -- Part III: Screened Nostalgias -- 9 Nostalgia Is Not What It Used to Be: Serial Nostalgia and Nostalgic Television Series -- 10 AMC's Mad Men and the Politics of Nostalgia -- 11 The Television Channel ARTE as a Time Machine and Matrix for European Identity -- 12 Nostalgia, Tinted Memories and Cinematic Historiography: On Otto Preminger's Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse (1958) -- Part IV: Creative Nostalgias -- 13 Creative Nostalgia for an Imagined Better Future: Il treno del Sud by the Migrant Filmmaker Alvaro Bizzarri -- 14 Nostalgia and Postcolonial Utopia in Senghor's Négritude -- 15 Impossible Nostalgia -- 16 Journeys through the Past: Contempt, Nostalgia, Enigma -- Poetic Transfer of a (Serious) Situation -- Index.

Media and Nostalgia is an interdisciplinary and international exploration of media and their relation to nostalgia. Each chapter demonstrates how nostalgia has always been a media-related matter, studying also the recent nostalgia boom by analysing, among others, digital photography, television series and home videos.

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