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Monochrome Memories: Nostalgia and Style in 1990s America
 
 

Monochrome Memories: Nostalgia and Style in 1990s America (Hardcover)

by Paul Grainge (Author) "If anyone has the right to remark that nostalgia is not what it used to be, it is surely the seventeenth-century Swiss physician Johannas Hofer..." (more)
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"I have not myself come across anything like it. Monochrome Memories is scholarly, interesting, well-presented and as far as I am aware breaks new ground in a number of ways. Aside from the intrinsic value of its analysis of an historically specific mode/style/fashion, the book is valuable for its discussion of loss, nostalgia and the retro style, and for a way in which it resists easy theory-led generalizations."-Steve Neale Sheffield Hallam University

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Explores nostalgia as a cultural style in 1990s America. Through a series of engaging and interlinked case studies on the news magazine, Hollywood film, brand advertising, and movie colorization, this volume examines the resurgence of the black and white image in the 1990s. At a time when American culture was undergoing both diversification and demystification, the black and white image became the expression of nostalgia as a cultural style and was strategically used in the media to visualize a sense of American memory, heritage, and identity. Challenging the current definition of nostalgia as a mood connected to longing and loss, the author presents it as a cultural mode that commodifies and aestheticizes memory. By examining the politics of stylized nostalgia, this volume provides new insight into the construction, representation, and preservation of American national memory at the turn of the 20th century.

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