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Selling Nostalgia
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Author : Mathew Klickstein
language : en
Publisher: Permuted Press+ORM
Release Date : 2019-08-13
Selling Nostalgia written by Mathew Klickstein and has been published by Permuted Press+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-13 with Fiction categories.
A struggling writer journeys through the world of fan conventions, collectible merch and more in this satirical novel—a “searing critique of geek culture” (Washington Post). As with so many members of his generation, down-on-his-luck writer-filmmaker Milton Siegel has an unhealthy fixation on the TV shows, movies, books, music, and celebrities from his childhood that spanned the 1980s and 1990s. Unlike many of his generation, Milt has spent most of his (so-called) life chronicling this same pop culture of his youth. After leaving his job at a regional newspaper, Milt embarks on a quixotic journey across the country to promote his latest project. Along the way, Milt contends with a horde of manic nerds, an inexplicable rash of natural disasters, clickbait-savvy media pundits, ambitious pseudo-celebrities, a seductive stripper, ultra-competitive frenemies, and his own sense of the precarious future while being so embroiled in his childish past.
Nostalgia Panamericana
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Author : W. Donald Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Don Thomas
Release Date : 1987
Nostalgia Panamericana written by W. Donald Thomas and has been published by Don Thomas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Social Science categories.
Selling The Amish
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Author : Susan L. Trollinger
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2012-03-15
Selling The Amish written by Susan L. Trollinger and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-15 with Business & Economics categories.
More than 19 million tourists flock to Amish Country each year, drawn by the opportunity to glimpse "a better time" and the quaint beauty of picturesque farmland and handcrafted quilts. What they may find, however, are elaborately themed town centers, outlet malls, or even a water park. Susan L. Trollinger explores this puzzling incongruity, showing that Amish tourism is anything but plain and simple. Selling the Amish takes readers on a virtual tour of three such tourist destinations in Ohio’s Amish Country, the world’s largest Amish settlement. Trollinger examines the visual rhetoric of these uniquely themed places—their architecture, interior decor, even their merchandise and souvenirs—and explains how these features create a setting and a story that brings tourists back year after year. This compelling story is, Trollinger argues, in part legitimized by the Amish themselves. To Americans faced with anxieties about modern life, being near the Amish way of life is comforting. The Amish seem to have escaped the rush of contemporary life, the confusion of gender relations, and the loss of ethnic heritage. While the Amish way supports the idealized experience of these tourist destinations, it also raises powerful questions. Tourists may want a life uncomplicated by technology, but would they be willing to drive around in horse-drawn buggies in order to achieve it? Trollinger's answers to important questions in her fascinating study of Amish Country tourism are sure to challenge readers’ understanding of this surprising cultural phenomenon.
Nostalgia Nerd S Gadgets Gizmos Gimmicks
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Author : Peter Leigh
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-10-13
Nostalgia Nerd S Gadgets Gizmos Gimmicks written by Peter Leigh and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-13 with Technology & Engineering categories.
In this eagerly-awaited new book from the author of the best-selling Nostalgia Nerd's Retro Tech, Peter Leigh takes a fun, informative and irreverent romp through the history of more than forty pieces of personal tech, charting the successes, failures and oddities from over five decades of our obsession with gadgetry. From the Teasmade to the TomTom, mankind has been on a constant hunt for gimmicks that make life easier, faster and more entertaining, and as yesterday's 'must-haves' become today's museum pieces, there's no better time to take a nostalgic trip through tech's back catalogue.
Kodak And The Lens Of Nostalgia
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Author : Nancy Martha West
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2000
Kodak And The Lens Of Nostalgia written by Nancy Martha West and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Business & Economics categories.
The advertising campaigns launched by Kodak in the early years of snapshot photography stand at the center of a shift in American domestic life that goes deeper than technological innovations in cameras and film. Before the advent of Kodak advertising in 1888, writes Nancy Martha West, Americans were much more willing to allow sorrow into the space of the domestic photograph, as evidenced by the popularity of postmortem photography in the mid-nineteenth century. Through the taking of snapshots, Kodak taught Americans to see their experiences as objects of nostalgia, to arrange their lives in such a way that painful or unpleasant aspects were systematically erased. West looks at a wide assortment of Kodak's most popular inventions and marketing strategies, including the "Kodak Girl," the momentous invention of the Brownie camera in 1900, the "Story Campaign" during World War I, and even the Vanity Kodak Ensemble, a camera introduced in 1926 that came fully equipped with lipstick. At the beginning of its campaign, Kodak advertising primarily sold the fun of taking pictures. Ads from this period celebrate the sheer pleasure of snapshot photography--the delight of handling a diminutive camera, of not worrying about developing and printing, of capturing subjects in candid moments. But after 1900, a crucial shift began to take place in the company's marketing strategy. The preservation of domestic memories became Kodak's most important mission. With the introduction of the Brownie camera at the turn of the century, the importance of home began to replace leisure activity as the subject of ads, and at the end of World War I, Americans seemed desperately to need photographs to confirm familial unity. By 1932, Kodak had become so intoxicated with the power of its own marketing that it came up with the most bizarre idea of all, the "Death Campaign." Initiated but never published, this campaign based on pictures of dead loved ones brought Kodak advertising full circle. Having launched one of the most successful campaigns in advertising history, the company did not seem to notice that selling a painful subject might be more difficult than selling momentary pleasure or nostalgia. Enhanced with over 50 reproductions of the ads themselves, 16 of them in color, Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia vividly illustrates the fundamental changes in American culture and the function of memory in the formative years of the twentieth century.
The Nostalgia Nerd S Retro Tech Computer Consoles Games
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Author : Peter Leigh
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-11-01
The Nostalgia Nerd S Retro Tech Computer Consoles Games written by Peter Leigh and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-01 with Computers categories.
Remember what a wild frontier the early days of home gaming were? Manufacturers releasing new consoles at a breakneck pace; developers creating games that kept us up all night, then going bankrupt the next day; and what self-respecting kid didn't beg their parents for an Atari or a Nintendo? This explosion of computers, consoles, and games was genuinely unlike anything the tech world has seen before or since. This thoroughly researched and geeky trip down memory lane pulls together the most entertaining stories from this dynamic era, and brings you the classic tech that should never be forgotten.
Screening American Nostalgia
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Author : Susan Flynn
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2021-07-27
Screening American Nostalgia written by Susan Flynn and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-27 with Performing Arts categories.
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 Gone with the Wind, to Stranger Things, The Americans, Twin Peaks, the Fallout franchise and more.
The Power Of Nostalgia
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Author : Amanda R. Martinez
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date :
The Power Of Nostalgia written by Amanda R. Martinez and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Self-Help categories.
The first book to examine nostalgia in all its facets: what triggers it; how it shapes mind, memory, and identity; and how it provides sustaining mental resilience for both individuals and cultures in times of stress. Far more than simply a sentimental attachment to the past, nostalgia has proven to be an emotion that has a profound cognitive and social function: it is a critical part of the mind’s immune system, a coping mechanism to heal and fortify ourselves in times of self-doubt and anxiety. It has also proven to be universal, across age, gender, and culture. Underpinning the book is cutting-edge research on the emerging science of nostalgia that top neuroscientists and psychologists have conducted over the past few years, with findings that are completely unexpected. The world-class scientists at the forefront of this research have welcomed Martinez into their labs and shared both their findings and their personal stories. The head of the Mind and Brain Center at UC Davis even made her the subject of a first-ever experiment in the power of music to shape identity. But the research goes deeper, suggesting that revisiting our fondest, restorative memories - our personal golden age - is fundamental to how we give our lives meaning and come to reconcile our purpose in the larger world. In the larger world, a wave of nostalgia has taken hold as a positive cultural phenomenon. On every continent, the author met people who shared anecdotes of their own golden age and she found nostalgia playing out in some wondrous ways. She toured with a Grateful Dead tribute band followed by thousands of fans; dined at a theme restaurant in Beijing, where patrons sit at old-fashioned schoolroom desks and “take” the menu as a multiple-choice test; and discovered that the new hot commodity in Germany is a junker of a car produced on the cheap during WWII and generally reviled at that time. She also looks to the future, to consider the impact of technology on the ways in which we “store” memories, digitized rather than recalled. The book also contains a fascinating section in which the author traces the destructive and increasingly global exploitation of nostalgia by charismatic demagogues who invoke an invented golden age for political purposes. Our reliance on nostalgia as a healing mechanism makes us uniquely vulnerable to politicians like the authoritarian leaders of Hungary and Poland, playing on the golden image of a “simpler” life in the past, or, Donald Trump, busy making America great again, or, both right-wing Tory leaders like Jacob Rees-Mogg and left-wing leaders like Jeremy Corbyn, who are each selling different forms of nostalgia to pursue their political agendas. Martinez explores this phenomenon, which has long historical roots.
Nostalgia
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Author : Agnes Arnold-Forster
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2024-04-25
Nostalgia written by Agnes Arnold-Forster and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-25 with Social Science categories.
'Absorbing' - Guardian 'Arnold-Forster is a shrewd critic and delightful guide . . . She carries weighty learning lightly – embracing everything relevant, from dubious neuroscience to cod sociology.' - The Telegraph In Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion, Agnes Arnold-Forster blends neuroscience and psychology with the history of medicine and emotions to explore the evolution of nostalgia from its first identification in seventeenth-century Switzerland (when it was held to be an illness that could, quite literally, kill you) to the present day (when it is co-opted by advertising agencies and politicians alike to sell us goods and policies). Nostalgia is a social and political emotion, vulnerable to misuse, and one that reflects the anxieties of the age. It is one of the many ways we communicate a desire for the past, dissatisfaction with the present and our visions for the future. Arnold-Forster’s fascinating history of this complex, slippery emotion is a lens through which to consider the changing pace of society, our collective feelings of regret, dislocation and belonging, the conditions of modern and contemporary work, and the politics of fear and anxiety. It is also a clear-eyed analysis of what we are doing now, how we feel about it and what we might want to change about the world we live in. ‘Arnold-Forster belongs to that valuable non-jargon-spouting breed of academic who is capable of explaining complex ideas in simple language.’ - The Times
Flickers Of Film
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Author : Jason Sperb
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2015-12-15
Flickers Of Film written by Jason Sperb and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-15 with Art categories.
Whether paying tribute to silent films in Hugo and The Artist or celebrating arcade games in Tron: Legacy and Wreck-It-Ralph, Hollywood suddenly seems to be experiencing a wave of intense nostalgia for outmoded technologies. To what extent is that a sincere lament for modes of artistic production that have nearly vanished in an all-digital era? And to what extent is it simply a cynical marketing ploy, built on the notion that nostalgia has always been one of Hollywood’s top-selling products? In Flickers of Film, Jason Sperb offers nuanced and unexpected answers to these questions, examining the benefits of certain types of film nostalgia, while also critiquing how Hollywood’s nostalgic representations of old technologies obscure important aspects of their histories. He interprets this affection for the prehistory and infancy of digital technologies in relation to an industry-wide anxiety about how the digital has grown to dominate Hollywood, pushing it into an uncertain creative and economic future. Yet he also suggests that Hollywood’s nostalgia for old technologies ignores the professionals who once employed them, as well as the labor opportunities that have been lost through the computerization and outsourcing of film industry jobs. Though it deals with nostalgia, Flickers of Film is strikingly cutting-edge, one of the first studies to critically examine Pixar’s role in the film industry, cinematic representations of videogames, and the economic effects of participatory culture. As he takes in everything from Terminator: Salvation to The Lego Movie, Sperb helps us see what’s distinct about this recent wave of self-aware nostalgic films—how Hollywood nostalgia today isn’t what it used to be.