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"Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television. Explores the rise of cultural nostalgia in contemporary film and television, from reboots of classic films and TV series like Westworld and the Star Wars franchise to series like Stranger Things and The Americans"--

Motion pictures --- Nostalgia in motion pictures. --- Television programs --- Nostalgia on television.

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With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin tells the human story of this exile in the context of decades of U.S. imperial interests in Iraq—from the U.S. backing of the 1963 Ba'th coup and support of Saddam Hussein's regime in the 1980s, to the 1991 Gulf War and 2003 invasion and occupation. Zainab Saleh shares the experiences of Iraqis she met over fourteen years of fieldwork in Iraqi London—offering stories from an aging communist nostalgic for the streets she marched since childhood, a devout Shi'i dreaming of holy cities and family graves, and newly uprooted immigrants with fresh memories of loss, as well as her own. Focusing on debates among Iraqi exiles about what it means to be an Iraqi after years of displacement, Saleh weaves a narrative that draws attention to a once-dominant, vibrant Iraqi cultural landscape and social and political shifts among the diaspora after decades of authoritarianism, war, and occupation in Iraq. Through it all, this book illuminates how Iraqis continue to fashion a sense of belonging and imagine a future, built on the shards of these shattered memories.

Iraqis --- Iraq. --- diaspora. --- empire. --- melancholy. --- nostalgia. --- piety. --- revolution. --- selfhood. --- subjectivity. --- violence. --- Ethnology

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A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture. In recent years, that memory has become a battleground in a long-drawn ideological war, inflecting debates on race, class, gender, culture, the UK’s future and its place in the world. This provocative and passionate book surveys the scene of the imperial memory wars in contemporary Britain, exploring how the myths that structure our views of empire came to be, and how they inform the present. Taking in such diverse subjects as Rory Stewart and inter-war adventure fiction, man’s facial hair and Kipling, the Alt-right and the Red Wall, Imperial Nostalgia asks how our relationship with our national past has gone wrong, and how it might be improved.

Imperialism. --- Collective memory --- Great Britain --- History. --- Brexit. --- Britain. --- British Empire. --- British empire. --- British politics. --- crisis. --- cultural studies. --- decolonisation. --- empire. --- historiography. --- history wars. --- imperial nostalgia. --- imperialism. --- memorial studies. --- nostalgia. --- postcolonial studies. --- racial imaginary.

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The Presence of the Past offers a new perspective on Hollywood's "New Wave" as engaged with the vitality of sensory experience and the affective imagination. As author Daniel Bishop shows, the soundtracks of several key films of the New Hollywood Cinema of the late 1960s and 70s cultivated an array of sensibilities regarding the American past. This importance of the past exceeded the New Hollywood's acknowledged use of genre revisionism as a vehicle for timely ideological commentary. There was also a vital tendency in this era to locate the past as an object of imagined phenomenal presence.Although this concept of the past never solidified into a self-conscious discourse, it was nevertheless woven into film culture, readable between the lines of criticism, cultural reception, New Wave aesthetics, and in the aesthetic and industrial transformations of sound design and film music. Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), The Last Picture Show (1971), American Graffiti (1973), Chinatown (1974), and Badlands (1973) are not only key texts of an exciting era in American popular cinema. They are also mediations upon the presence of the past, an image central to the polarities of visceral energy and ambiguous ephemerality, of utopian dreams and melancholy resignation that characterized this cinema. These sensibilities of pastness engage in diverse ways with myth, nostalgia, paranoia, and existential alienation. They are, however, also united by a concern both with the experiential actuality of the past and with the distances that inevitably separate us from this actuality. "In the tumultuous era of the late 1960s and early 70s, several currents of American art and culture coalesced around a broad sensibility that elevated and explored the immediacy of lived experience, whether as an aesthetic or political imperative. But in films set in the historical past, this sensibility acquired complex additional resonances by speaking to the ephemerality of the present moment through a framework of history, myth, nostalgia, and other forms associated with temporal alienation or distance. The Presence of the Past explores the implications of this complex moment in Hollywood cinema through several prominent examples released in the years 1967 to 1974. Key genres are explored in detailed case studies: the outlaw film (Bonnie and Clyde and Badlands), the revisionist Western (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, McCabe and Mrs. Miller), the neo-noir (Chinatown) and the nostalgia film (The Last Picture Show and American Graffiti). In these films, however, "the past" is more than a matter of genre or setting. Rather, it is a richly diverse, often paradoxical concern in its own right, bridging conceptual territories within soundtrack studies, including the sixties pop score, myth criticism, the representation of media technology, and the role of classical music in compilation scoring. Against a broader background of an industry and film culture that were witnessing a stylistic and aesthetic diversification in the use of music and sound design, The Presence of the Past argues for the film-philosophical importance of the soundtrack for cultivating an imagined experiential understanding of the past"--

Motion picture music --- Film soundtracks --- Nostalgia in motion pictures. --- History in motion pictures. --- Cinéma et histoire. --- Nostalgie --- Musique de film. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- Au cinéma

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"Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals. In this time of climate change, this book explores how nostalgia for fading ecologies unfolds into the interstitial spaces between the biological, the political and the social, regret and hope, the past, the present and the future"--

Human ecology --- Global environmental change --- Ethnoecology --- Social aspects --- agricultural. --- amazonia. --- animals. --- anthropology. --- changing ecosystems. --- climate change. --- contemporary. --- ecology. --- econostalgias. --- engaging. --- environmental anthropology and ethnobiology series. --- ethnographic cases. --- ethnographic. --- ethnography. --- evolution. --- fading ecologies. --- government and governing. --- historical. --- history. --- interstitial spaces. --- lively. --- nature. --- nostalgia. --- page turner. --- politics. --- retrospective. --- revolt. --- science and math. --- social issues. --- social science. --- theoretical. --- Indigenous peoples --- Traditional ecological knowledge --- Environmental change, Global --- Global change, Environmental --- Global environmental changes --- Change --- Ecology --- Climatic changes --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Human ecology - Case studies --- Ethnoecology - Case studies --- Global environmental change - Social aspects - Case studies --- Nostalgia - Social aspects - Case studies --- Nostalgia