Salmose, Niklas <br/><br/>
Contemporary Nostalgia 

 -  MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute  2019 
 - 1 electronic resource (194 p.) 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> Some of the most pressing contemporary issues (ecological crisis, migration and integration, fragmented worldviews, social media, fake news, extremist politics and terrorism) can be understood more profoundly through how they interact with both individual and collective forces of nostalgia. Nostalgia is politics, but these politics are also interwoven with media and culture. Notwithstanding how nostalgia is used or contextualized in terms of politics and social practices, commodification or personal development, its power is primarily situated within its efficacy as a governing, influential human emotion. The vast and luminous contributions to this special issue on contemporary nostalgia are all investigating the role different aesthetic media formats (film, music, literature, computer games) plays in nostalgic negotiations with style, history, migration, love, nationalism, diaspora, irony, modernity, colonial and postcolonial discourses, and adoption. Mutually, these essays stand out as important, original, critical contributions to the expanding field of nostalgia studies and offer a valued insight on our world. 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>books978-3-03921-557-7 9783039215560 9783039215577 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.3390/books978-3-03921-557-7  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>illustrations n/a tropic reinvention simulation émigré writers motherhood nostalgic spaces imagery Naumann contemporary nostalgia grotesque displacement intermediality nostalgic experience F. Scott Fitzgerald Second World War North Africa Campaign post-communism railways ostalgia Partition fiction retro aesthetics India Hollywood Nubia restorative nostalgia narrative modes Ian McEwan Lars Gustafsson post-Yugoslav music Rickardsson cosmopolitanism idealisation nostalgic dystopias heritage cinema advertisements partition responsibility “The Rich Boy” heterotopia childhood myths spatial production nostalgic narrative popular literature refugees commodification of feelings and memories modernism ethics first-person narrative transnational adoption Finland-Swedish literature imperial nostalgia Red Book Magazine American literature Atonement modernity disembodied territoriality expatriation the concept of love independent style narrative mediation F.R. Gruger nation-state southern gothic video games Czech history historical recreation memory Egypt media autobiography Richard Ford collective memory Czech film normalisation Pakistan Niklas Salmose reflective nostalgia text-image relations Foucault poetry nostalgia Yugonostalgia nostalgic strategies metanostalgia lost ideal colonial nostalgia pastoral landscape territory