Mahlon Meyer
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9789888083862
- eISBN:
- 9789882209091
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888083862.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
The book tells the story of the exodus from China of two million Nationalist loyalists, military and civilians. It depicts the choices faced by millions of families as they were forced to chose which ...
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The book tells the story of the exodus from China of two million Nationalist loyalists, military and civilians. It depicts the choices faced by millions of families as they were forced to chose which child to send ahead to Taiwan, to safety, as they heard the artillery of the advancing communist armies and anticipated certain death. It also shows the creation of a nostalgic community across the Taiwan Strait created by those families divided by the civil war. The argument is that the mainlanders living on Taiwan saw themselves as cursed, exiled people and only found their way, a new identity when they faced a coming-together with their families on the mainland. Though many of the reunions were bittersweet, they did provide the Nationalists and their families a new sense, a reinvention of, the idea of being Chinese.Less
The book tells the story of the exodus from China of two million Nationalist loyalists, military and civilians. It depicts the choices faced by millions of families as they were forced to chose which child to send ahead to Taiwan, to safety, as they heard the artillery of the advancing communist armies and anticipated certain death. It also shows the creation of a nostalgic community across the Taiwan Strait created by those families divided by the civil war. The argument is that the mainlanders living on Taiwan saw themselves as cursed, exiled people and only found their way, a new identity when they faced a coming-together with their families on the mainland. Though many of the reunions were bittersweet, they did provide the Nationalists and their families a new sense, a reinvention of, the idea of being Chinese.
George Pattison
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- February 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780199279777
- eISBN:
- 9780191603464
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199279772.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
Since early modern times, art has paralleled religion in its response to technology as illustrated by Ruskin’s thoughts on the colour purple. Heidegger also turned to art, especially the poetry of ...
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Since early modern times, art has paralleled religion in its response to technology as illustrated by Ruskin’s thoughts on the colour purple. Heidegger also turned to art, especially the poetry of Hölderlin, as an alternative to technology. Against the background of Benjamin’s essay on ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Technical Reproducibility’, the question is asked whether the thoroughly technicized art of film can become a focus for such creative counter-technological thinking. A positive answer is developed with reference to Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Nostalgia.Less
Since early modern times, art has paralleled religion in its response to technology as illustrated by Ruskin’s thoughts on the colour purple. Heidegger also turned to art, especially the poetry of Hölderlin, as an alternative to technology. Against the background of Benjamin’s essay on ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Technical Reproducibility’, the question is asked whether the thoroughly technicized art of film can become a focus for such creative counter-technological thinking. A positive answer is developed with reference to Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Nostalgia.
Daniel Marrone
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781496807311
- eISBN:
- 9781496807359
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496807311.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
The work of Canadian cartoonist Seth positions itself between history and memory, and in doing so gives rise to a range of ambivalent impulses, chief among them an ambivalent longing for the past. ...
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The work of Canadian cartoonist Seth positions itself between history and memory, and in doing so gives rise to a range of ambivalent impulses, chief among them an ambivalent longing for the past. Seth suggests that “the whole process of cartooning is dealing with memory,” and by consistently drawing attention to seams and borders, his comics invite the reader to examine the processes by which narratives of the past come to seem seamless.
Seth’s work exhibits a complicated nostalgia that is well aware of its own reactionary, restorative and nationalistic inclinations, and is able to channel them toward productive ends. His ironic, humorous, and metafictional approaches to memory, loss and longing for the past reveal that his attitude toward these closely related subjects is deeply ambivalent. Memory is here conceived not just as an invisible, ubiquitous mental phenomenon that reflects our experience of time and relation to the past, but as a medium, an art –one which is in many ways akin to cartooning.
The fundamental operation of comics as a visual medium initiates and makes space for narrative interpolations in a way that is not only comparable to but in a certain sense mimics the historical interpolations of memory; in both cases, longing is spurred by incompleteness. Seth turns the medium of memory on itself, using it as an instrument to examine the processes of remembrance and making history.Less
The work of Canadian cartoonist Seth positions itself between history and memory, and in doing so gives rise to a range of ambivalent impulses, chief among them an ambivalent longing for the past. Seth suggests that “the whole process of cartooning is dealing with memory,” and by consistently drawing attention to seams and borders, his comics invite the reader to examine the processes by which narratives of the past come to seem seamless.
Seth’s work exhibits a complicated nostalgia that is well aware of its own reactionary, restorative and nationalistic inclinations, and is able to channel them toward productive ends. His ironic, humorous, and metafictional approaches to memory, loss and longing for the past reveal that his attitude toward these closely related subjects is deeply ambivalent. Memory is here conceived not just as an invisible, ubiquitous mental phenomenon that reflects our experience of time and relation to the past, but as a medium, an art –one which is in many ways akin to cartooning.
The fundamental operation of comics as a visual medium initiates and makes space for narrative interpolations in a way that is not only comparable to but in a certain sense mimics the historical interpolations of memory; in both cases, longing is spurred by incompleteness. Seth turns the medium of memory on itself, using it as an instrument to examine the processes of remembrance and making history.
Brian Cremins
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781496808769
- eISBN:
- 9781496808806
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496808769.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
Why was Captain Marvel—a little boy named Billy Batson whose magic word transforms him into the World’s Mightiest Mortal—one of the most popular comic book characters in the United States in the ...
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Why was Captain Marvel—a little boy named Billy Batson whose magic word transforms him into the World’s Mightiest Mortal—one of the most popular comic book characters in the United States in the 1940s? To answer this question, this book takes the reader on a journey through the lives of the writers, artists, and readers who devoted themselves to this hero and his adventures. It’s the story of artist C. C. Beck and writer Otto Binder, one of the most innovative and prolific creative teams of the Golden Age of comics in the U. S.; of the comic book fanzines of the 1960s, which celebrated Billy and the rest of the Marvel Family; and of an art form steeped in nostalgia, a term with a long, complex, and often misunderstood history. Taking its cue from C. C. Beck’s theories of comic art, this book is a study of why we read comics, and, more significantly, how we remember these heroes and the America that dreamed them in the first place.Less
Why was Captain Marvel—a little boy named Billy Batson whose magic word transforms him into the World’s Mightiest Mortal—one of the most popular comic book characters in the United States in the 1940s? To answer this question, this book takes the reader on a journey through the lives of the writers, artists, and readers who devoted themselves to this hero and his adventures. It’s the story of artist C. C. Beck and writer Otto Binder, one of the most innovative and prolific creative teams of the Golden Age of comics in the U. S.; of the comic book fanzines of the 1960s, which celebrated Billy and the rest of the Marvel Family; and of an art form steeped in nostalgia, a term with a long, complex, and often misunderstood history. Taking its cue from C. C. Beck’s theories of comic art, this book is a study of why we read comics, and, more significantly, how we remember these heroes and the America that dreamed them in the first place.
Richard Jobson
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781526113306
- eISBN:
- 9781526136039
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526113306.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This book examines the impact that nostalgia has had on the Labour Party’s political development since 1951. In contrast to existing studies that have emphasised the role played by modernity, it ...
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This book examines the impact that nostalgia has had on the Labour Party’s political development since 1951. In contrast to existing studies that have emphasised the role played by modernity, it argues that nostalgia has defined Labour’s identity and determined the party’s trajectory over time. It outlines how Labour, at both an elite and a grassroots level, has been and remains heavily influenced by a nostalgic commitment to an era of heroic male industrial working-class struggle. This commitment has hindered policy discussion, determined the form that the modernisation process has taken and shaped internal conflict and cohesion. More broadly, Labour’s emotional attachment to the past has made it difficult for the party to adjust to the socioeconomic changes that have taken place in Britain. In short, nostalgia has frequently left the party out of touch with the modern world. In this way, this book offers an assessment of Labour’s failures to adapt to the changing nature and demands of post-war Britain.Less
This book examines the impact that nostalgia has had on the Labour Party’s political development since 1951. In contrast to existing studies that have emphasised the role played by modernity, it argues that nostalgia has defined Labour’s identity and determined the party’s trajectory over time. It outlines how Labour, at both an elite and a grassroots level, has been and remains heavily influenced by a nostalgic commitment to an era of heroic male industrial working-class struggle. This commitment has hindered policy discussion, determined the form that the modernisation process has taken and shaped internal conflict and cohesion. More broadly, Labour’s emotional attachment to the past has made it difficult for the party to adjust to the socioeconomic changes that have taken place in Britain. In short, nostalgia has frequently left the party out of touch with the modern world. In this way, this book offers an assessment of Labour’s failures to adapt to the changing nature and demands of post-war Britain.
Thomas Dodman
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780226492803
- eISBN:
- 9780226493138
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226493138.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Ideas
Nostalgia today is seen as a wistful but ultimately benign longing for the past—a positive emotion innate to all human beings. It hasn’t always been so. As the saying goes, nostalgia “ain’t what it ...
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Nostalgia today is seen as a wistful but ultimately benign longing for the past—a positive emotion innate to all human beings. It hasn’t always been so. As the saying goes, nostalgia “ain’t what it used to be”; indeed, people used to die of it. This book unearths the forgotten history of clinical nostalgia, from the coining of the term itself in 1688 to its removal from medical discourse in the late nineteenth century. Throughout this time and across much of the North Atlantic world, “nostalgia” meant a deadly form of homesickness found especially among soldiers, slaves, and colonial settlers far from their homes. This book charts the evolving scientific and cultural debates that framed the disease, ultimately turning a precise medical term into an expansive cultural concept tied to a romantic aesthetic. At the same time, it delves into the experiences of those who suffered from homesickness on the battlefields of Napoleonic Europe or during the French conquest of North Africa, sketching a little-known page in the pre-history of modern psychiatry and war trauma. A historical emotion, born of the changes wrought by war, empire, and capitalism, nostalgia forces us to rethink the very temporalities and spatialities of modernity itself.Less
Nostalgia today is seen as a wistful but ultimately benign longing for the past—a positive emotion innate to all human beings. It hasn’t always been so. As the saying goes, nostalgia “ain’t what it used to be”; indeed, people used to die of it. This book unearths the forgotten history of clinical nostalgia, from the coining of the term itself in 1688 to its removal from medical discourse in the late nineteenth century. Throughout this time and across much of the North Atlantic world, “nostalgia” meant a deadly form of homesickness found especially among soldiers, slaves, and colonial settlers far from their homes. This book charts the evolving scientific and cultural debates that framed the disease, ultimately turning a precise medical term into an expansive cultural concept tied to a romantic aesthetic. At the same time, it delves into the experiences of those who suffered from homesickness on the battlefields of Napoleonic Europe or during the French conquest of North Africa, sketching a little-known page in the pre-history of modern psychiatry and war trauma. A historical emotion, born of the changes wrought by war, empire, and capitalism, nostalgia forces us to rethink the very temporalities and spatialities of modernity itself.
Nima Naghibi
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780816683826
- eISBN:
- 9781452954400
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816683826.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature
This monograph examines the popular trend among diasporic Iranian women to produce auto/biographical narratives through a variety of genres: published memoirs, documentary films, comics, and social ...
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This monograph examines the popular trend among diasporic Iranian women to produce auto/biographical narratives through a variety of genres: published memoirs, documentary films, comics, and social media. Contemporary diasporic Iranian memoirs, Naghibi claims, are particularly interesting in their mediation of the diasporic experience through the authors' memories of pre-revolutionary 1970s Iran, thus placing the concepts of memory and nostalgia, and questions of testimony and witness, at the heart of these narratives.
This monograph explores the phenomenon of diasporic Iranian women’s life narratives in English in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, arguing that what ties these disparate narratives together is the experience of the 1979 revolution as a traumatic event, and the expression of a powerful nostalgia for an idealized past. The title of this book, Righting the Past, invokes a double entendre that draws attention to the important work of setting right historical injustices through the act of writing life narratives. This book posits the importance of writing as an articulation of memory, and as an assertion of human rights. By drawing on the empathy of the reader-spectator-witness, life narratives, argues Naghibi, offer the possibility of extending to their subjects a recognition of their humanity.Less
This monograph examines the popular trend among diasporic Iranian women to produce auto/biographical narratives through a variety of genres: published memoirs, documentary films, comics, and social media. Contemporary diasporic Iranian memoirs, Naghibi claims, are particularly interesting in their mediation of the diasporic experience through the authors' memories of pre-revolutionary 1970s Iran, thus placing the concepts of memory and nostalgia, and questions of testimony and witness, at the heart of these narratives.
This monograph explores the phenomenon of diasporic Iranian women’s life narratives in English in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, arguing that what ties these disparate narratives together is the experience of the 1979 revolution as a traumatic event, and the expression of a powerful nostalgia for an idealized past. The title of this book, Righting the Past, invokes a double entendre that draws attention to the important work of setting right historical injustices through the act of writing life narratives. This book posits the importance of writing as an articulation of memory, and as an assertion of human rights. By drawing on the empathy of the reader-spectator-witness, life narratives, argues Naghibi, offer the possibility of extending to their subjects a recognition of their humanity.
Cathal Kilcline
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781781382899
- eISBN:
- 9781789629323
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781781382899.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter considers a selection of the key touchstones for nostalgic reminiscence in French sport, including the Tour de France cycle race and Saint-Étienne football club, and analyses what these ...
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This chapter considers a selection of the key touchstones for nostalgic reminiscence in French sport, including the Tour de France cycle race and Saint-Étienne football club, and analyses what these reveal in regards to public memories of, and hopes for, sport and society generally. In this analysis, the ‘legends’ and ‘epics’ of France’s sporting past are frequently set against a backdrop of a utopian era of industrial triumph and working-class solidarity, distinct from the globalized information age of today. Nostalgia for this era, and its associated champions, values and aesthetics are increasingly being mobilised to promote sporting events and sell sportswear today.Less
This chapter considers a selection of the key touchstones for nostalgic reminiscence in French sport, including the Tour de France cycle race and Saint-Étienne football club, and analyses what these reveal in regards to public memories of, and hopes for, sport and society generally. In this analysis, the ‘legends’ and ‘epics’ of France’s sporting past are frequently set against a backdrop of a utopian era of industrial triumph and working-class solidarity, distinct from the globalized information age of today. Nostalgia for this era, and its associated champions, values and aesthetics are increasingly being mobilised to promote sporting events and sell sportswear today.
Sarah Robertson
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781496824325
- eISBN:
- 9781496824370
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496824325.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapters examines the work of several poor white life-writers, including Jeanette Walls, Dorothy Allison, Rick Bragg and Barbara Robinette Moss. It raises questions about nostalgia, ...
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This chapters examines the work of several poor white life-writers, including Jeanette Walls, Dorothy Allison, Rick Bragg and Barbara Robinette Moss. It raises questions about nostalgia, romanticization, and neo-agrarianism as it critically interrogates ideas of the southern community and regional foodways. Through new historicist and postcolonial lenses, it argues that these works often share a counter-historical approach as they seek to talk back against dominant misperceptions about lives shaped by poverty. As it considers representations of welfare and war, it turns to J.D. Vance’s bestselling Hillbilly Elegy to critically interrogate its neoliberal agenda and its place within the poor white sub-genre of life-writing.Less
This chapters examines the work of several poor white life-writers, including Jeanette Walls, Dorothy Allison, Rick Bragg and Barbara Robinette Moss. It raises questions about nostalgia, romanticization, and neo-agrarianism as it critically interrogates ideas of the southern community and regional foodways. Through new historicist and postcolonial lenses, it argues that these works often share a counter-historical approach as they seek to talk back against dominant misperceptions about lives shaped by poverty. As it considers representations of welfare and war, it turns to J.D. Vance’s bestselling Hillbilly Elegy to critically interrogate its neoliberal agenda and its place within the poor white sub-genre of life-writing.
Maaheen Ahmed
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781496825261
- eISBN:
- 9781496825315
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496825261.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
This chapter on Mike Mignola'sHellboy examines Hellboy's unwitting submergence into a supernatural dimension in terms of a romantic quest to reconcile his demonic essence and his human upbringing. It ...
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This chapter on Mike Mignola'sHellboy examines Hellboy's unwitting submergence into a supernatural dimension in terms of a romantic quest to reconcile his demonic essence and his human upbringing. It also elaborates on the romantic inclinations manifested through the series' nostalgia for disappeared (fantastic) worlds.
It focuses, first, on Hellboy’s combination of storyworlds that overwhelm human reality and reflect nostalgia for forgotten and fantastic worlds and second, Hellboy’s doomed quest. Another element related to the spectacle and recurring throughout the Hellboycomics is the tense relationship between animation and control. The chapter then broaches the relevance of the spectacle itself—the theatrical nature of which is emphasized by the supernatural creatures who watch and comment on Hellboy’s struggles from another world.Less
This chapter on Mike Mignola'sHellboy examines Hellboy's unwitting submergence into a supernatural dimension in terms of a romantic quest to reconcile his demonic essence and his human upbringing. It also elaborates on the romantic inclinations manifested through the series' nostalgia for disappeared (fantastic) worlds.
It focuses, first, on Hellboy’s combination of storyworlds that overwhelm human reality and reflect nostalgia for forgotten and fantastic worlds and second, Hellboy’s doomed quest. Another element related to the spectacle and recurring throughout the Hellboycomics is the tense relationship between animation and control. The chapter then broaches the relevance of the spectacle itself—the theatrical nature of which is emphasized by the supernatural creatures who watch and comment on Hellboy’s struggles from another world.
Tom Woodin
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780719091117
- eISBN:
- 9781526139023
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719091117.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
A significant body of written work was produced by older people in the 1970s and 1980s reflecting back on the early twentieth century. Through the individual voice, wider social contexts were ...
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A significant body of written work was produced by older people in the 1970s and 1980s reflecting back on the early twentieth century. Through the individual voice, wider social contexts were explored. Writers focused upon some key themes in order to achieve this, including childhood, work, family, the individual and politics to achieve this. The insistent belief in care and community in times of hardship is understood as a contradictory structure of feeling which spread widely during this time. Contrary to ideal type definitions of community, a close reading of texts reveals actual meanings and practices which have often been ignored in the historical record. Silences and tensions are also explored.Less
A significant body of written work was produced by older people in the 1970s and 1980s reflecting back on the early twentieth century. Through the individual voice, wider social contexts were explored. Writers focused upon some key themes in order to achieve this, including childhood, work, family, the individual and politics to achieve this. The insistent belief in care and community in times of hardship is understood as a contradictory structure of feeling which spread widely during this time. Contrary to ideal type definitions of community, a close reading of texts reveals actual meanings and practices which have often been ignored in the historical record. Silences and tensions are also explored.
Mark Hampton
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719099236
- eISBN:
- 9781526104373
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719099236.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
This brief chapter examines Britain’s the post-colonial legacy in Hong Kong. On the surface, little had changed, with basic institutions (an Executive-based government, the Independent Commission ...
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This brief chapter examines Britain’s the post-colonial legacy in Hong Kong. On the surface, little had changed, with basic institutions (an Executive-based government, the Independent Commission Against Corruption, a bureaucratic civil service, rule of law) enduring. Yet with Occupy Central and what many were calling the Umbrella Revolution unfolding, numerous Hong Kong people—including students too young to have a memory of the Colonial era—argued that too much had changed. To such observers, Hong Kong’s economy had become too dependent on mainland tourism, freedom of the press was gradually eroding, and Hong Kong’s hard-earned special status was evaporating. The chapter reflects on the irony that critiques of the Beijing government—including demands for full democracy—in the second decade of the twenty-first century were often accompanied by nostalgia for the Colonial period.Less
This brief chapter examines Britain’s the post-colonial legacy in Hong Kong. On the surface, little had changed, with basic institutions (an Executive-based government, the Independent Commission Against Corruption, a bureaucratic civil service, rule of law) enduring. Yet with Occupy Central and what many were calling the Umbrella Revolution unfolding, numerous Hong Kong people—including students too young to have a memory of the Colonial era—argued that too much had changed. To such observers, Hong Kong’s economy had become too dependent on mainland tourism, freedom of the press was gradually eroding, and Hong Kong’s hard-earned special status was evaporating. The chapter reflects on the irony that critiques of the Beijing government—including demands for full democracy—in the second decade of the twenty-first century were often accompanied by nostalgia for the Colonial period.
Daniel Peretti
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496814586
- eISBN:
- 9781496814623
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496814586.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
Through extended analysis of two Superman fans, this chapter also explores the religious resonances implicit in previous chapters. By juxtaposing the stories of these two fans, one of whom is a ...
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Through extended analysis of two Superman fans, this chapter also explores the religious resonances implicit in previous chapters. By juxtaposing the stories of these two fans, one of whom is a pastor and the other an atheist, this chapter foregrounds the issues that Superman stories allow their audience to explore. The focus is on life story, which becomes once again a history of taking into account Superman stories and is intimately tied to the various foundational, ontological, and cosmological questions often addressed by religion.Less
Through extended analysis of two Superman fans, this chapter also explores the religious resonances implicit in previous chapters. By juxtaposing the stories of these two fans, one of whom is a pastor and the other an atheist, this chapter foregrounds the issues that Superman stories allow their audience to explore. The focus is on life story, which becomes once again a history of taking into account Superman stories and is intimately tied to the various foundational, ontological, and cosmological questions often addressed by religion.
Michael Owen Jones and Lucy M. Long
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496810847
- eISBN:
- 9781496810892
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496810847.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
This chapter introduces readers to the goals, history, and contents of the volume. It places the study of comfort food within disciplinary frameworks and explores some of the larger questions raised ...
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This chapter introduces readers to the goals, history, and contents of the volume. It places the study of comfort food within disciplinary frameworks and explores some of the larger questions raised by the existence of this category of food.Less
This chapter introduces readers to the goals, history, and contents of the volume. It places the study of comfort food within disciplinary frameworks and explores some of the larger questions raised by the existence of this category of food.
Rachelle H. Saltzman
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496810847
- eISBN:
- 9781496810892
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496810847.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
Both savory and sweet puddings have enjoyed a long history in Britain and throughout the former empire, where they are numerous, diverse, and widely spread. Despite or because of their ubiquity, ...
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Both savory and sweet puddings have enjoyed a long history in Britain and throughout the former empire, where they are numerous, diverse, and widely spread. Despite or because of their ubiquity, puddings as a food group have generally been neglected by scholars. Yet they are one of the UK’s most storied foods. Puddings appear in historical texts, in folk poetry and tale, on menus from the most modest café to the fanciest of dining establishments. While the ingredients, for both savory and sweet, are simple, few, and modest, the very name pudding conjures up nostalgic memories and stories of childhood that transcend age and class boundaries. As such, puddings are the quintessential comfort food in Britain and function as an implicit category for an essentialized English identity.Less
Both savory and sweet puddings have enjoyed a long history in Britain and throughout the former empire, where they are numerous, diverse, and widely spread. Despite or because of their ubiquity, puddings as a food group have generally been neglected by scholars. Yet they are one of the UK’s most storied foods. Puddings appear in historical texts, in folk poetry and tale, on menus from the most modest café to the fanciest of dining establishments. While the ingredients, for both savory and sweet, are simple, few, and modest, the very name pudding conjures up nostalgic memories and stories of childhood that transcend age and class boundaries. As such, puddings are the quintessential comfort food in Britain and function as an implicit category for an essentialized English identity.
Yvonne R. Lockwood and William G. Lockwood
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496810847
- eISBN:
- 9781496810892
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496810847.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
Milk products are an important part of the Finnish American diet, and here the focus is on the role of an iconic dairy product in the continuity of Finnish American ethnicity and the maintenance of ...
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Milk products are an important part of the Finnish American diet, and here the focus is on the role of an iconic dairy product in the continuity of Finnish American ethnicity and the maintenance of Finnish America itself. Viili, fermented milk resembling yogurt, is a food enjoyed in Finland and has been made and eaten in Finnish America since immigration. The chapter explores the interrelatedness of the social and cultural aspects of this food, how and why it serves as “comfort food,” the concept of “nostalgia,” and the ways in which viili interconnect Finnish Americans.Less
Milk products are an important part of the Finnish American diet, and here the focus is on the role of an iconic dairy product in the continuity of Finnish American ethnicity and the maintenance of Finnish America itself. Viili, fermented milk resembling yogurt, is a food enjoyed in Finland and has been made and eaten in Finnish America since immigration. The chapter explores the interrelatedness of the social and cultural aspects of this food, how and why it serves as “comfort food,” the concept of “nostalgia,” and the ways in which viili interconnect Finnish Americans.
Frances Smith
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781474413091
- eISBN:
- 9781474438452
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474413091.003.0005
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Throughout this book, it has been clear that the Hollywood teen movie has close links with the youth culture of its time. Yet as this chapter will demonstrate, this equation between contemporary ...
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Throughout this book, it has been clear that the Hollywood teen movie has close links with the youth culture of its time. Yet as this chapter will demonstrate, this equation between contemporary youth culture and the Hollywood films that claim to represent it is not nearly as clear-cut as one might expect. For Timothy Shary, the genre is trapped in a peculiar double bind that determines its relationship with the past: while film-makers aggressively target a youth audience, young people themselves lack the experience or means to produce amass-market feature film, as a result of which, these representations of youth are ‘filtered through an adult lens’. An oblique refraction of the youth culture of the past – often that of the director themselves – can therefore be regarded as a central feature of the genre as a whole.Less
Throughout this book, it has been clear that the Hollywood teen movie has close links with the youth culture of its time. Yet as this chapter will demonstrate, this equation between contemporary youth culture and the Hollywood films that claim to represent it is not nearly as clear-cut as one might expect. For Timothy Shary, the genre is trapped in a peculiar double bind that determines its relationship with the past: while film-makers aggressively target a youth audience, young people themselves lack the experience or means to produce amass-market feature film, as a result of which, these representations of youth are ‘filtered through an adult lens’. An oblique refraction of the youth culture of the past – often that of the director themselves – can therefore be regarded as a central feature of the genre as a whole.
Joanne Garde-Hansen
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748640348
- eISBN:
- 9780748670949
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748640348.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
How do we rely on media for remembering? In exploring the complex ways that media converge to support our desire to capture, store and retrieve memories, this textbook offers analyses of ...
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How do we rely on media for remembering? In exploring the complex ways that media converge to support our desire to capture, store and retrieve memories, this textbook offers analyses of representations of memorable events, media tools for remembering and forgetting, media technologies for archiving and the role of media producers in making memories. Theories of memory and media are covered alongside an accessible range of case studies focusing on memory in relation to radio, television, pop music, celebrity, digital media and mobile phones. Ethnographic and production culture research, including interviews with members of the public and industry professionals, is also included. Offering a comprehensive introduction to the connections and disconnections in the study of media and memory, this is the perfect textbook for media studies students. Key Features • Presents a thorough and detailed overview of key writers, theories and debates • Case studies enrich the text, offering innovative approaches and insights on methodology • Covers a range of ‘old’ and ‘new’ media including radio, television, film, photography, digital media, mobile phones and popular music • Explores discourses, forms and practices of media and memory with active learning exercises that engage readersLess
How do we rely on media for remembering? In exploring the complex ways that media converge to support our desire to capture, store and retrieve memories, this textbook offers analyses of representations of memorable events, media tools for remembering and forgetting, media technologies for archiving and the role of media producers in making memories. Theories of memory and media are covered alongside an accessible range of case studies focusing on memory in relation to radio, television, pop music, celebrity, digital media and mobile phones. Ethnographic and production culture research, including interviews with members of the public and industry professionals, is also included. Offering a comprehensive introduction to the connections and disconnections in the study of media and memory, this is the perfect textbook for media studies students. Key Features • Presents a thorough and detailed overview of key writers, theories and debates • Case studies enrich the text, offering innovative approaches and insights on methodology • Covers a range of ‘old’ and ‘new’ media including radio, television, film, photography, digital media, mobile phones and popular music • Explores discourses, forms and practices of media and memory with active learning exercises that engage readers
Joanna Hofer-Robinson
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781474420983
- eISBN:
- 9781474453738
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474420983.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter argues that we can track Dickensian afterlives in both the cultural processes by which cultural memories of Jacob’s Island have been constructed, and the processes that drove its ...
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This chapter argues that we can track Dickensian afterlives in both the cultural processes by which cultural memories of Jacob’s Island have been constructed, and the processes that drove its material destruction earlier in the nineteenth century. Linked to outbreaks of cholera in the 1830s and 1840s, the slum was widely treated as a symbol which could help to galvanize metropolitan sanitary reform. Dickens’s representation of the site in Oliver Twist was repeatedly brought into these debates. The author was deeply invested in efforts to improve London’s sanitation, and like other commentators he returned to his early novel to support his campaigns. Both Dickens and other commentators presented Oliver Twist as an urgent call for contemporary reform; however, the novel’s afterlives soon changed in tone. As early as the 1870s, press commentators responded to the area’s physical alteration and evoked Oliver Twist as a record of a bygone city. By the 1880s, artists and writers nostalgically reimagined Dickens’s account of the site in an urban picturesque aesthetic. Today, Dickens is part of a heritage trail in the district, even though his representation also played a part in the demolition of Jacob’s Island.Less
This chapter argues that we can track Dickensian afterlives in both the cultural processes by which cultural memories of Jacob’s Island have been constructed, and the processes that drove its material destruction earlier in the nineteenth century. Linked to outbreaks of cholera in the 1830s and 1840s, the slum was widely treated as a symbol which could help to galvanize metropolitan sanitary reform. Dickens’s representation of the site in Oliver Twist was repeatedly brought into these debates. The author was deeply invested in efforts to improve London’s sanitation, and like other commentators he returned to his early novel to support his campaigns. Both Dickens and other commentators presented Oliver Twist as an urgent call for contemporary reform; however, the novel’s afterlives soon changed in tone. As early as the 1870s, press commentators responded to the area’s physical alteration and evoked Oliver Twist as a record of a bygone city. By the 1880s, artists and writers nostalgically reimagined Dickens’s account of the site in an urban picturesque aesthetic. Today, Dickens is part of a heritage trail in the district, even though his representation also played a part in the demolition of Jacob’s Island.
Dominick Grace (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496815118
- eISBN:
- 9781496815156
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496815118.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
This chapter challenges the general, reductive assumption that graphic novelist Seth’s work is dominated by a nostalgic impulse. Offering a close reading of It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken, the ...
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This chapter challenges the general, reductive assumption that graphic novelist Seth’s work is dominated by a nostalgic impulse. Offering a close reading of It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken, the chapter demonstrates that though the protagonist/narrator is deeply nostalgic, the narrative itself critiques and undermines this version of “Seth”; Seth the graphic novelist critiques the overly nostalgic impulses of this eponymic persona in the graphic novel.Less
This chapter challenges the general, reductive assumption that graphic novelist Seth’s work is dominated by a nostalgic impulse. Offering a close reading of It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken, the chapter demonstrates that though the protagonist/narrator is deeply nostalgic, the narrative itself critiques and undermines this version of “Seth”; Seth the graphic novelist critiques the overly nostalgic impulses of this eponymic persona in the graphic novel.
