A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Dr. Sylwia Szostak examines Netflix’s “nostalgia strategy” in a recent Polish film, Mr. Car and the Knights Templar, arguing that global distribution results in the delocalization of Netflix’s “local productions.”
Read moreJasmine Banks, Mel Monier, and Olivia Stowell examine the desires for authenticity and nostalgia at the core of BeReal’s affordances. These authors argue that the staying power of this app is yet to be seen, the structures of feelings evoked and constructed through the app’s design points towards enduring subject-making processes of the digital.
Read moreExploring the intertexuality of The CW’s Riverdale (2017–present), Caroline N. Bayne focuses on the way that the series exploits the tension between midcentury nostalgia and the darker teen pop culture of the 1980s and 1990s.
Read moreKathleen Loock explores the increasing use of digital de-aging in Hollywood cinema and how the phenomenon affects stars’ personas and audience memory and nostalgia.
Read moreAs audiences become ever more fragmented, Siobhan Lyons looks at the ways communal nostalgia is increasingly giving way to niche nostalgia.
Read moreAnalyzing The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Helen Morgan-Parmett discusses the intersections of gender and urban crisis in nostalgic discourses surrounding New York’s past, present, and future.
Read moreI Lost my Wife to Facebook, and Other Myths that Might be True
by: Michele Byers / Saint Mary’s University
Facebook anyone? Looking to the online community, Facebook, the author considers how nostalgia and irony simultaneously figure into this current trend.