{"product_id":"screening-american-nostalgia-essays-on-pop-culture-constructions-of-past-times-paperback","title":"Screening American Nostalgia: Essays on Pop Culture Constructions of Past Times - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Flynn\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAntonia MacKay\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eGone with the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, to \u003ci\u003eStranger Things, The Americans, Twin Peaks\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eFallout\u003c\/i\u003e franchise and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Flynn\u003c\/b\u003e is the director of Educore, the education research center of the Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland, an associate researcher at University College Dublin and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the United Kingdom. She specializes in digital screen culture, equality and pedagogy. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntonia Mackay\u003c\/b\u003e is a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom. She specializes in American literature and culture, twentieth and twenty-first century literature and cultural and media studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 217\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 26, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42161345855623,"sku":"9781476680743","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/65e0f9b5908a573f2fcd90c6c7978016.webp?v=1733280411","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/screening-american-nostalgia-essays-on-pop-culture-constructions-of-past-times-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}