The Promise of Nostalgia: Reminiscence, Longing and Hope in Contemporary American Culture

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Everybody’s still just wild about nostalgia
	Nostalgia versus utopia
	A Blochian approach
	What is the contemporary?
	Overview
	Notes
Part I
	Chapter 1: Nostalgia: Is it really not what it used to be?
		A medical origin: longing for home
		Modern nostalgia: longing for lost time
		Nostalgia versus modernity
		Modern technologies of nostalgia
		Postmodern nostalgia: what longing?
		Amnesiac nostalgia
		Consumption and longing
		Nostalgia for sale
		Technology and the nostalgia mode
		Criticisms of theories of the nostalgia mode
		Current debate
		Notes
	Chapter 2: Memory, nostalgia, utopia and time
		Defining utopia
		Ideology versus utopia
		Utopia: glorious past or glittering future?
		Marcuse and Bloch: psychoanalysis, remembrance and the utopian impulse
		Marcuse and remembrance
		Bloch and the not yet
		A false binary?
		Notes
	Chapter 3: Nostalgia as ‘gold-bearing rubble’
		Bloch’s ideology critique
		Bloch’s non-contemporaneous: traces of hope
		Bloch, Marcuse and Derrida: ghosts which need redeeming
		Benjamin’s shock of recognition
		Recent complementary approaches
		Introducing Part II
		Notes
Part II
	Interlude 1: The hole in the whole: utopia contra instrumental reason
		Notes
	Chapter 4: The ‘strange magic’ of Style Rookie and Rookiemag
		Introducing Tavi
		Defining the text
		Notes on a new nostalgia
		A Jamesonian reading
		A Blochian reading
		Metamodern nostalgia
		Notes
	Interlude 2: A space outside: utopia as negation
		Notes
	Chapter 5: Memories of longing in The Virgin Suicides
		Jameson and the nostalgia film
		A Jamesonian reading
		Jameson versus Bloch: a methodological reflection
		A Blochian reading: the gold in the rubble
		Rebellion, negation and the teenage
		Notes
	Interlude 3: Marshalling the past: utopia versus once upon a time
		Notes
	Chapter 6: Nostalgia in photographs of Detroit’s ‘abandoned spaces’
		Detroit ‘abandoned spaces’ photography: the current debate
		A Benjaminian reading of Camilo José Vergara’s American Ruins
		A Jamesonian reading of Detroit‘ abandoned spaces’ photography
		A Blochian reading of Detroit ‘abandoned spaces’ photography
		The symbolic allure of abandonment
		Nostalgia for the vertical
		Notes
	Conclusion
		Notes
	References
	Index