TY - BOOK ID - 61123110 TI - Contemporary Nostalgia PY - 2019 SN - 3039215574 3039215566 PB - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - illustrations KW - n/a KW - tropic reinvention KW - simulation KW - émigré writers KW - motherhood KW - nostalgic spaces KW - imagery KW - Naumann KW - contemporary nostalgia KW - grotesque KW - displacement KW - intermediality KW - nostalgic experience KW - F. Scott Fitzgerald KW - Second World War KW - North Africa Campaign KW - post-communism KW - railways KW - ostalgia KW - Partition fiction KW - retro aesthetics KW - India KW - Hollywood KW - Nubia KW - restorative nostalgia KW - narrative modes KW - Ian McEwan KW - Lars Gustafsson KW - post-Yugoslav music KW - Rickardsson KW - cosmopolitanism KW - idealisation KW - nostalgic dystopias KW - heritage cinema KW - advertisements KW - partition KW - responsibility KW - “The Rich Boy” KW - heterotopia KW - childhood KW - myths KW - spatial production KW - nostalgic narrative KW - popular literature KW - refugees KW - commodification of feelings and memories KW - modernism KW - ethics KW - first-person narrative KW - transnational adoption KW - Finland-Swedish literature KW - imperial nostalgia KW - Red Book Magazine KW - American literature KW - Atonement KW - modernity KW - disembodied territoriality KW - expatriation KW - the concept of love KW - independent style KW - narrative mediation KW - F.R. Gruger KW - nation-state KW - southern gothic KW - video games KW - Czech history KW - historical recreation KW - memory KW - Egypt KW - media KW - autobiography KW - Richard Ford KW - collective memory KW - Czech film KW - normalisation KW - Pakistan KW - Niklas Salmose KW - reflective nostalgia KW - text-image relations KW - Foucault KW - poetry KW - nostalgia KW - Yugonostalgia KW - nostalgic strategies KW - metanostalgia KW - lost ideal KW - colonial nostalgia KW - pastoral KW - landscape KW - territory KW - émigré writers KW - "The Rich Boy" UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61123110 AB - 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. ER -