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  Playing with Peripherals

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  Ben Aslinger Bentley University

  September 24, 2007

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  Playing with Peripherals affect audiences Dance Dance Revolution embodiment Guitar Hero interfaces John Guare Karaoke Revolution Lev Manovich memory nostalgia peripherals play Six Degrees of Separation video games Curator's Note “It was an experience ...
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  ABBA 1974: The Birth of Swedish Modernity?

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  Christian Christensen Karlstad University — Sweden

  November 05, 2007

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  ABBA 1974: The Birth of Swedish Modernity? globalization marketing nostalgia competition nationalism music Sweden 1970s Eurovision ABBA Scandinavia Bjorn Borg IKEA Curator's Note For me, this clip of ABBA's winning performance at the 1974 Eurovi ...
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  Burgundy Histories? WEWS-TV “Catch 5!” 1970s promo

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  Mark Williams Dartmouth College

  February 26, 2008

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  Burgundy Histories? WEWS-TV “Catch 5!” 1970s promo history idents journalism Youtube nostalgia advertising aesthetics 1970s regional media affiliate Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgany Cleveland Dorothy Fuldheim local media Curator's Note Surfing fo ...
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  Raphael Saadiq's Soul Memories

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  Michael D Dwyer Arcadia University

  August 30, 2012

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  Raphael Saadiq's Soul Memories soul Raphael Saadiq pop music nostalgia memory Media Nostalgia Curator's Note To understand the relationship between popular media and nostalgia, we first need to understand this: nostalgia isn't about the pas ...
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  This Actually Needs to Happen: The Daria Movie Trailer

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  Angelina Karpovich Brunel University

  March 20, 2014

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  between the end of Generation X and the beginning of Generation Y, were, by a long shot, the oldest people ... beginning to experience genuine nostalgia for the first time in our lives. It is significant that the fake ...
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  Video Aesthetics and Nostalgia Deployed in Better Call Saul

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  Anthony C. Bleach Kutztown University

  August 19, 2015

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  our knowledge of his "sad as hell" future sketched at the beginning of the series, but the ... viewers chronologically before the series' narrative begins. (In a neat audio mirror, Goodman’s ...
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  Harmonies of Discord: Pop Oldies and Horror Trailers

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  Leanne Weston University of Warwick

  May 02, 2016

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  (2003), which uses Sonic Youth’s renowned cover of ‘Superstar.’ Its presence marks the beginning of ... a deep sense of unease within the audience, not least because Sonic Youth’s interpretation is so ...
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  Stranger Things: Channeling Nostalgia/Challenging Nostalgia

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  Virginia Bonner Clayton State University

  September 14, 2016

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  a little empty." Certainly, much of the spectatorial joy, for the GenX set at least, comes from ...
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  The Absurdity of Nostalgia in the Visual Comedy of Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

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  Garret Castleberry Mid-America Christian University

  September 15, 2016

  offered the most glaringly authentic satirical reversal of the pop nostalgia movement...at least until the ...
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  Bringing Back our Favorites: Nostalgia, Revivals and the Limited Series Format

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  Liz Clarke University of New Brunswick

  December 12, 2016

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  the very least, for the popular media tropes of that decade), while shows such as Arrested ...

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