Tag: Nostalgia

Free Download Janina Falkowska, "Andrzej Wajda: History, Politics, and Nostalgia in Polish Cinema"
English | ISBN: 1845452259 | 2006 | 352 pages | PDF | 30 MB
The work of Andrzej Wajda, one of the world’s most important filmmakers, shows remarkable cohesion in spite of the wide ranging scope of his films, as this study of his complete output of feature films shows. Not only do his films address crucial historical, social and political issues; the complexity of his work is reinforced by the incorporation of the elements of major film and art movements. It is the reworking of these different elements by Wajda, as the author shows, which give his films their unique visual and aural qualities.

Free Download Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989
by Penny M. Von Eschen
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1478018232 | 395 Pages | True PDF | 36 MB

Free Download Young People, Media, and Nostalgia: An Ethnography of How Youth Imagine their Lives
by Rodrigo Muñoz-González
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032847557 | 190 Pages | True PDF | 3 MB

Free Download Susan Flynn, Antonia Mackay, "Screening American Nostalgia: Essays on Pop Culture Constructions of Past Times"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1476680744 | PDF | pages: 218 | 18.6 mb
This book examines American screen culture and its power to create and sustain values. Looking specifically at the ways in which nostalgia colors the visions of American life, essays explore contemporary American ideology as it is created and sustained by the screen. Nostalgia is omnipresent, selling a version of America that arguably never existed. Current socio-cultural challenges are played out onscreen and placed within the historical milieu through a nostalgic lens which is tempered by contemporary conservatism. Essays reveal not only the visual catalog of recognizable motifs but also how these are used to temper the uncertainty of contemporary crises. Media covered spans from 1939’s Gone with the Wind, to Stranger Things, The Americans, Twin Peaks, the Fallout franchise and more.

Free Download Máiréad Nic Craith, "The Vanishing World of The Islandman: Narrative and Nostalgia"
English | 2019 | pages: 206 | ISBN: 3030257746 | PDF | 2,4 mb
Exploring An t-Oileánach (anglicised as The Islandman), an indigenous Irish-language memoir written by Tomás Ó Criomhthain (Tomás O’Crohan), Máiréad Nic Craith charts the development of Ó Criomhthain as an author; the writing, illustration, and publication of the memoir in Irish; and the reaction to its portrayal of an authentic, Gaelic lifestyle in Ireland. As she probes the appeal of an island fisherman’s century-old life-story to readers in several languages-considering the memoir’s global reception in human, literary and artistic terms-Nic Craith uncovers the indelible marks of Ó Criomhthain’s writing closer to home: the Blasket Island Interpretive Centre, which seeks to institutionalize the experience evoked by the memoir, and a widespread writerly habit amongst the diasporic population of the Island. Through the overlapping frames of literary analysis, archival work, interviews, and ethnographic examination, nostalgia emerges and re-emerges as a central theme, expressed in different ways by the young Irish state, by Irish-American descendants of Blasket Islanders in the US today, by anthropologists, and beyond.

Free Download Tobias Becker, "The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia"
English | ISBN: 1032429208 | 2024 | 578 pages | PDF | 11 MB
The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia serves as a guide to the complex and often contradictory concept of nostalgia, as well as the field of "nostalgia studies" more broadly.

Free Download Patrick Porter, "The False Promise of Liberal Order: Nostalgia, Delusion and the Rise of Trump"
English | ISBN: 1509538674 | 2020 | 224 pages | AZW3 | 734 KB
In an age of demagogues, hostile great powers and trade wars, foreign policy traditionalists dream of restoring liberal international order. This order, they claim, ushered in seventy years of peace and prosperity and saw post-war America domesticate the world to its values.

Free Download Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMY1DNDM | 2024 | 8 hours and 20 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 229 MB
Author: Agnes Arnold-Forster
Narrator: Agnes Arnold-Forster
In Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion, Agnes Arnold-Forster blends neuroscience and psychology with the history of medicine and emotions to explore the evolution of nostalgia from its first identification in seventeenth-century Switzerland (when it was held to be an illness that could, quite literally, kill you) to the present day (when it is co-opted by advertising agencies and politicians alike to sell us goods and policies). Nostalgia is a social and political emotion, vulnerable to misuse, and one that reflects the anxieties of the age. It is one of the many ways we communicate a desire for the past, dissatisfaction with the present and our visions for the future. Arnold-Forster’s fascinating history of this complex, slippery emotion is a lens through which to consider the changing pace of society, our collective feelings of regret, dislocation and belonging, the conditions of modern and contemporary work, and the politics of fear and anxiety. It is also a clear-eyed analysis of what we are doing now, how we feel about it and what we might want to change about the world we live in.

Free Download Camilla Cassidy, "Twilight Histories: Nostalgia and the Victorian Historical Novel "
English | ISBN: 9004526501 | 2022 | 241 pages | PDF | 16 MB
Twilight Histories explores the relationship between nostalgia and the Victorian historical novel, arguing that both responded to the turbulence brought by accelerating modernisation. Nostalgia began as a pathological homesickness, its first victims seventeenth-century soldiers serving abroad. Only gradually did it become the sentimental memory we understand it as today. In a striking parallel to nostalgia’s origin, the historical novel emerged in the tumultuous early-years of the nineteenth century, at a time when the Napoleonic Wars once again set troops on the move, creating a new wave of homesick soldiers. In the historical novels of Gaskell, Thackeray, Dickens, Eliot and Hardy, nostalgia offered a language in which to describe the experience of living through changing times as a homesickness for history.

Free Download Simon Bacon, "Gothic Nostalgia: The Uses of Toxic Memory in 21st Century Popular Culture "
English | ISBN: 3031438515 | 2024 | 333 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1455 KB + 5 MB
This book is an original and innovative study of how Gothic nostalgia and toxic memory