Nostalgia Is Not What It Used to Be: Serial Nostalgia and Nostalgic Television Series

Niemeyer, Katharina; Wentz, Daniela

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“…Television scholars have observed a nostalgia boom in contemporary television culture in Europe (Holdsworth, 2011; Niemeyer and Wentz, 2014). Conventionally, nostalgia is understood as an attitude that idealizes the past in response to dissatisfaction with the present (e.g.…”

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‘Long live the friendship between the Soviet Union and Finland!’ Irony, nostalgia, and melodrama in Finnish historical television drama and documentary series

Pajala

2017

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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In critical studies on historical television programmes, the affective qualities of televisual memory have been discussed mainly in terms of nostalgia. This article argues that conceptualizing the affective modes of relating to the past in more varied ways can help us to better understand the politics of memory on television. As a case study, the article analyses Finnish Broadcasting Company Yleisradio’s historical drama and documentary series that deal with the relationship between Finland and the Soviet Union. The article identifies three affective modes in the programmes: irony, nostalgia and melodrama. Each of these modes offers different possibilities for critiquing, understanding and justifying the past. By studying televisual memories of the Soviet Union in a non-socialist country with important political, economic and cultural ties with the socialist bloc, the article moreover questions a clear East–West binary in studies on post-socialist memory.

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“…Bell and Gray, 2010; Edgerton and Rollins, 2001). Less attention has been paid to the affective qualities of televisual depictions of the past, especially modes other than nostalgia (Holdsworth, 2011; Niemeyer and Wentz, 2014). Historical television programmes are more than a source of information, they also entertain and move viewers.…”

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‘Long live the friendship between the Soviet Union and Finland!’ Irony, nostalgia, and melodrama in Finnish historical television drama and documentary series

Pajala

2017

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…As briefly mentioned in the introduction, historical media -television, radio, home computers, arcade games, analogue photography, traditional home video technology -may in themselves constitute triggers of nostalgia (Bartholeyn, 2014;Holdsworth, 2011;Niemeyer, 2014;Sapio, 2014). In this respect The Disney Christmas Show fits into current retro culture sensibility; it consists of hand-animated cartoons (with undeniable aesthetic quality).…”

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“…On major television channels we find nostalgic programmes wherein celebrities recall the objects and events of their childhood, and on the cable networks we find entire channels devoted exclusively to nostalgic film classics. A multitude of recent film and television series indulge in the material cultures and designs of past decades (Holdsworth, 2011;Niemeyer and Wentz, 2014). In Denmark we find the recycling of old children's programmes and Christmas calendars and neverending reruns of popular television series such as 'Huset på Christianshavn', 'En by i provinsen' and 'Beverly Hills 90210'.…”

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Nostalgia, irony and collectivity in late-modern culture

Schiermer

Carlsen

2016

Acta Sociologica

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The paper seeks to promote a sociological understanding of the current wave of nostalgic expressions haunting late-modern Western culture and to re-evaluate the predominantly negative assessment of nostalgia. Filling two gaps in the existing research on nostalgia, the authors wish (1) to reintegrate into the phenomenon its experiential and collective dimensions and (2) to propose a theoretical sociological framework capable of analysing nostalgic ritual. In the first part of the paper, we discuss different approaches to the phenomenon of nostalgia. Second, we delve into the complex emotional and experiential aspects of the phenomenon and distil three different types of nostalgia. Third, seeking inspiration from É mile Durkheim and Randall Collins, we scrutinise the common collective characteristics of these different types of nostalgia. Arguing that Collins remains too interactionist in his approach to ritual, we seek to erect a theoretical framework apt for articulating mediated forms of nostalgic ritual. Fourth, we use our theoretical framework to analyse a well-known instance of nostalgic ritual in Scandinavia: The Disney Christmas Show.

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“…Two iconic revenants are most evident, both named Steven (Stephen): King and Spielberg, avowedly the main influences of the Duffers 8 . The show has been analysed in relation to 80s nostalgia by a number of critics and academics (Lucy Baker, Amanda Howell, and Rebecca Kumar, Tracey Mollett, Rebecca Wildermuth 9 , Matthias Stephan 10 , whereas nostalgia in relation to television series has been investigated among others by Katharina Niemeyer and Daniela Wentz 11 , and by Giulia Taurino).…”

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Steven’s Spectres: Stranger Things in Small-Town USA

Moldovan¹

2020

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In recent years, the 80s and the attached plethora of cultural synecdoches have been haunting various genres of American film and TV. Often both the cinematic form and the content of these recirculations are structured around tropes established in the period by directors such as Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter, Robert Zemeckis, Richard Donner, Rob Reiner, Ivan Reitman and others. The paper considers the case of the Netflix TV show Stranger Things, directed by the Duffer brothers, attempting to read its spectral physiognomy and filiations, as well as to interpret its theoretical undertones in popular culture. The paper will analyze the theoretical implications between the small town of the story and the placeholder planetary spaces it is distributed to, as well as the curious palimpsest of temporalities manifest in the show’s stories, the show itself as a global product and its distribution

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Nostalgia Is Not What It Used to Be: Serial Nostalgia and Nostalgic Television Series

Cited by 27 publications

References 4 publications

‘Long live the friendship between the Soviet Union and Finland!’ Irony, nostalgia, and melodrama in Finnish historical television drama and documentary series

‘Long live the friendship between the Soviet Union and Finland!’ Irony, nostalgia, and melodrama in Finnish historical television drama and documentary series

Nostalgia, irony and collectivity in late-modern culture

Steven’s Spectres: Stranger Things in Small-Town USA

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