Tobias Becker

Dylan Trigg

The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia serves as a guide to the complex and often contradictory concept of nostalgia, as well as the field of “nostalgia studies” more broadly. Nostalgia is an area of intense interest across several disciplines as well as within society and culture more generally. This handbook brings together an international, interdisciplinary team of researchers to survey the current landscape and identify common trends, achievements, and gaps in existing literature. Comprising 45 chapters, the volume covers the following topics: Disciplinary perspectives of nostalgias including philosophy, history, literature, and psychology. Conceptual aspects of nostalgia including homesickness, temporality, affectivity, and memory. Historical and political dimensions such as afro-nostalgia, populism, feminism, and queer nostalgia. Spatial and material aspects of nostalgia including ruins, regionalism, and objects. Media-related nostalgia such as analogue and digital nostalgia, reboots, revivals, gaming, and graphic novels. Essential reading for students and researchers working in nostalgia studies, this book will also be beneficial to related disciplines such as philosophy, anthropology, geography, history, and literature; cultural, media, heritage, museum, and film studies courses; and more generally for readers interested in how the past is represented and used in the present.

The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia

Len Platt

This book tells the story of the history of popular culture in Europe since 1800, providing a framework which challenges traditional associations that have formulated popular culture firmly in relation to the post-1945 period and the economic power of the USA. Focusing on key themes associated with modernity – secularisation, industrialisation, social cohesion and control, globalisation and technological change – this synthesis of research across a very wide field fills a gap that has long been felt by students and educators working in the field of popular culture. While it is organised as a history of cultural forms, it can also be used across a wide range of social science and humanities programmes, including media and cultural studies, literary studies, sociology and European studies. Covering the subject with a broad number of themes, this book discusses popular culture through visual culture and performance, games, music, film, television and video games. Popular Culture in Europe since 1800 will be of interest to anyone looking for an engaged but concise overview of how book production and reading practices, visual cultures, music, performance and sports and games developed across Europe in the modern period.

A Student's Guide

Popular Culture in Europe since 1800

A sweeping reassessment of our longing for the past, from the rise of “retro” to the rhetoric of Brexit and Trump. Nostalgia has a bad reputation. Its critics dismiss it as mere sentimentality or, worse, a dangerous yearning for an imagined age of purity. And nostalgia is routinely blamed for trivializing the past and obscuring its ugly sides. In Yesterday, Tobias Becker offers a more nuanced and sympathetic view. Surveying the successive waves of nostalgia that swept the United States and Europe after the Second World War, he shows that longing for the past is more complex and sometimes more beneficial than it seems. The current meaning of “nostalgia” is surprisingly recent: until the 1960s, it usually just meant homesickness, in keeping with the original Greek word. Linking popular culture to postwar politics in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany, Becker explains the shift in meaning. He also responds to arguments against nostalgia, showing its critics as often shortsighted in their own ways as they defend an idea of progress no less naïve than the wistfulness they denounce. All too often, nostalgia itself is criticized, as if its merit did not depend on which specific past one longs for. Taking its title from one of the most popular songs of all time, and grounded in extensive research, Yesterday offers a rigorous and entertaining perspective on divisive issues in culture and politics. Whether we are revisiting, reviving, reliving, reenacting, or regressing, and whether these activities find expression in politics, music, fashion, or family history, nostalgia is inevitable. It is also powerful, not only serving to define the past but also orienting us toward the future we will create.

A New History of Nostalgia

Yesterday

Nostalgia, supposedly, is the sphere of the sentimentalist. But also, and most definitely, it is a force in the creation of the present and future and thus worth careful thought. Yesterday argues that nostalgia's critics defend an idea of progress as naïve as the longing they denounce, while conflating nostalgia itself with historical whitewashing.

David Linton

This is the first book to reconstruct early popular musical theatre as a transnational and highly cosmopolitan entertainment industry.

Popular Musical Theatre in London and Berlin

Anna Littmann

Johanna Niedbalski

Stadt und Vergnügen waren um 1900 eng miteinander verbunden. Tanzveranstaltungen und Theater, Kino und Kneipen boten den Großstadtbewohnern vielfältige Möglichkeiten, ihrem Bedürfnis nach Freizeitgestaltung und Unterhaltung nachzugehen. Gleichzeitig prägten die Vergnügungsangebote zunehmend das Stadtbild. Ausgehend von der Beobachtung, dass die Herausbildung einer modernen Vergnügungskultur nicht ohne die Urbanisierung gedacht werden kann und dass die Vergnügungskultur eine wichtige Rolle im Prozess der Anpassung an das Leben in der Großstadt spielte, untersucht der Band die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Metropole und Vergnügen um 1900. Das Spektrum der Beiträge reicht vom Vergnügungsviertel bis zum Kiezvergnügen, von Mode auf der Theaterbühne und politischen Massenveranstaltungen bis hin zu Alpenbällen und Musikautomaten.

Vergnügungskultur um 1900

Die tausend Freuden der Metropole

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Public Relations, Werbung, Marketing, Social Media, Note: 1,3, Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart, Veranstaltung: Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Werbung ist eines der wichtigsten Instrumente der Wirtschaft um Kunden über Produkte zu informieren und sie nach Möglichkeit zum Kauf des jeweiligen Produktes zu bewegen. Ständig werden neue Werbestrategien entwickelt und getestet. Jedem sind schon einmal bekannte Marken oder Firmen in Filmen aufgefallen und manch einer hat auch schon darüber nachgedacht ob eine solche Werbung beabsichtigt wurde und ob diese Werbeform nicht mit dem Gesetz in Konflikt gerät. Product Placement ist mittlerweile eine häufige Werbeform in Spielfilmen und sogar TV-Serien. Diese Form ist mindestens genauso umstritten wie erfolgreich. Diese Tatsache macht das Thema interessant und hat auch mich dazu bewegt mir genau dies näher anzusehen. Das Filmbeispiel „I, Robot“ habe ich gewählt, weil mir in diesem Film das erste Mal eine Produktplatzierung aufgefallen war. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist, die Werbewirksamkeit von Product Placement anhand des Beispielfilms „I,Robot“ herauszuarbeiten. Dazu werden zunächst die Grundlagen und allgemeinen rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen erläutert. Danach wird der Beispielfilm analysiert und die einzelnen Placements aufgeführt. In dieser Arbeit liegt der Schwerpunkt auf dem „I, Robot“ Placement von Audi.

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