
Young People, Media, and Nostalgia
An Ethnography of How Youth Imagine their Lives
- 216 pages
- English
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Young People, Media, and Nostalgia
An Ethnography of How Youth Imagine their Lives
About this book
This book explores how Latin American young people engage with nostalgia and grasp a sense of nostalgic representations of the 1970s and 1980s through contemporary media.
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Costa Rica, this book analyses how young audiences make sense of nostalgic representations of transnational pasts, thus creating a link between media reception practices and the engagement with broader social, cultural, economic, and political structures. It also brings to the fore new insights concerning the role media has in fostering senses of national memory by highlighting the key role of everyday media engagements in comprehending the past.
This comprehensive empirical study will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students of media and communications studies, Latin American studies, sociology, digital culture, memory studies, social and cultural anthropology, youth studies, cultural studies, and readers interested in popular culture, television, and cinema.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Endorsement Page
- Half Title page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Back in Time
- 2 From Memory to Nostalgia
- 3 Making Sense of Nostalgia
- 4 Imagining the Past: Idealisations and Ambivalences
- 5 Per Aspera Ad Astra
- 6 Charming Pasts and Impossible Futures
- 7 Nostalgia as Structure of Feeling
- 8 Epilogue: A Meditation on Homecomings
- Appendix: Research Design
- Index