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The Promise of Nostalgia examines how nostalgia functions as a powerful force in modern American culture, challenging the widespread dismissal of nostalgia as backward-looking and anti-progressive. This Routledge Research in Anticipation and Futures volume analyses diverse cultural texts including Jeffrey Eugenides' novel The Virgin Suicides and Sofia Coppola's film adaptation, photography documenting Detroit's abandoned spaces, and Tavi Gevinson's influential media work. Rather than treating nostalgia as a symptom of lost utopian vision, the book uncovers a masked utopian impulse embedded within contemporary cultural production. The study offers a nuanced theoretical framework for understanding how nostalgia, reminiscence and longing operate within contemporary society, revealing complex relationships between past longing and future possibility. Ideal for scholars, students and readers interested in cultural studies, psychology, media analysis and the emotional dimensions of American culture.

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Analyses The Virgin Suicides across both Jeffrey Eugenides' novel and Sofia Coppola's film adaptation to examine nostalgia in contemporary storytelling.

Explores Detroit's abandoned spaces through photography, revealing how visual culture expresses nostalgic affect and cultural memory.

Examines Tavi Gevinson's media output and digital cultural production as contemporary expressions of nostalgia and longing.

Proposes a masked utopian impulse within nostalgia rather than accepting the common caricature of it as purely anti-future sentiment.

Part of the Routledge Research in Anticipation and Futures series, connecting nostalgic affect to theories of futurity and hope.

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Amazon UK
Release Date
23 January 2020
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04 February 2019

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