Ryan Lizardi

Mediated Nostalgia (eBook, ePUB)

Individual Memory and Contemporary Mass Media

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Considering the current rash of film remakes, vintage video game downloads, and box sets of bygone television shows, media today is obsessed with nostalgia. Instead of presenting a past that functions as an adaptive mirror with which we can compare our contemporary situation, the past is instead presented as an individualized version that transfixes us as uncritical citizens of our own culture. Mediated Nostalgia: Individual Memory and Contemporary Mass Media argues that the cultural implication of a cross-media eternal return to nostalgia is an increasing reliance on defining who we are as people and societies by what media we consumed as children. The unblinking eye toward the past knows no progress, or at the very least, does not employ the past to compare and adaptively engage with the present or future. Examining film, literature, television, and video games, Ryan Lizardi tackles the idea of why that strong sense of nostalgia is such a popular tactic for the media industry, and why it is problematic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739196229
• Artikelnr.: 41963574

Autorenporträt

Ryan Lizardi is associate professor of digital media and humanities at SUNY Polytechnic Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Perpetual Individual Nostalgic's Playlist
Past
Chapter 2: The Explosion of Digital Archiving Nostalgic Access
Chapter 3: The Zombie Television Series
Chapter 4: Downloading and Playing an Explicit and Implicit Past
Chapter 5: The Epistemology of the Remake
Concluding Remarks