University of Brighton
2nd Annual Film & Screen Studies Symposium
Nostalgia in Art, Media and Popular Culture
School of Media
Friday 28 April 2017, 10.00-15.30
154-5 Edward Street, Room 102
University of Brighton
Brighton BN2 0JG
Nostalgia is a recurring theme of contemporary popular film, television and digital media. Reboots and remakes,
sequels and spin-offs fill our screens. DVD box sets repackage old shows as new products. Digital techniques recreate the look of celluloid, old photography and early cinema, as older media formats, such as vinyl and audio cassettes experience renewed popularity.
Indie videogames evoke retro aesthetics, streamed television conspicuously emulates the cinematography of 1980s movies, while award winning films reference the musicals of classical Hollywood in a combination of irony and sincerity. Advertising, science fiction
cinema, biopics, children’s television and digital serials are engaged in a complex interplay between present and a mediated past as much imaginary as actual. What are the meanings, contexts, and consequences of such widespread engagement with the past, and
how might cultural nostalgia be critically theorised?
This event explores the presence of nostalgia in areas of media, art and popular culture. All welcome. No requirement
to book. Papers to include:
Jenni Cresswell: Deconstructing Dresses to Reveal an Imagined Past and Future
Katherine Farrimond: Retro Noir, Nostalgia and the Femme Fatale
Louise Fitzgerald: “It feels so nostalgic”: Sensory Nostalgia and Haptic Empathy
Martin Fradley “The past does matter … it shapes the future”: Shane Meadows and Counter Nostalgia
Struan Gray: “To see ourselves again”: Nostalgia for a Dictatorship in
Pinochet’s Children
Ewan Kirkland: Nostalgia, Cowboys and Western Mythology in Popular Culture for Children
Douglas McNaughton: “A Tourist In Your Own Youth”: Karaoke Sequels and Spatialised Nostalgia in Danny Boyle’s
Trainspotting 2
Aris Mousoutzanis:
Taboo (BBC 2017) and Imperial Nostalgia
Deborah Philips: “It's Being Nostalgic that Kept Them Going”: Sandy Wilson and the Nostalgia of Camp
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