{"product_id":"promise-of-nostalgia","title":"Promise of Nostalgia","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Promise of Nostalgia analyses a range of texts – including \u003ci\u003eThe Virgin Suicides,\u003c\/i\u003e both the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides’ and Sofia Coppola’s screen adaptation\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e photography of Detroit’s ‘abandoned spaces’, and blogger Tavi Gevinson's media output – to explore nostalgia as a prominent affect in contemporary American cultural production. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCounter to the prevalent caricature of nostalgia as anti-future, the book proposes a more nuanced reading of its stakes and meanings. Instead of understanding it as evidence of the absence of utopia it contends that there is a masked utopian impulse in this nostalgia ‘mode’ and critical potential in what has typically been dismissed as ideological. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of interest to scholars, graduate students and upper-level undergraduate students interested in contemporary culture, cultural theory, media studies, the Frankfurt School, utopian studies and American literature and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45541788025070,"sku":"9781032175867","price":67.19,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/promise-of-nostalgia","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}