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  Making America Great Again: Nostalgia, Hucksterism, and the Empty Signifier

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  Andrew J. Salvati Drew University

  October 13, 2021

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  Making America Great Again: Nostalgia, Hucksterism, and the Empty Signifier Truthful Hyperbole Trump nostalgia Make America Great Again Curator's Note America in decline. It's a narrative that resonates powerfully among conservatives in the Obam ...
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  Show-boating and Race-baiting: Movies aboard the 'Sunny South'

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  Paul S Moore Ryerson University

  October 12, 2020

  on one side of the river. “On the southern end of the circuit, seats are sold ‘black and white,’ no ...
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  New Nostalgia in “Watchmen”

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  Jade C. Huell California State University Northridge

  September 14, 2020

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  New Nostalgia in “Watchmen” watchmen nostalgia comics HBO Curator's Note Removed from the Watchmen universe and dropped into an edgy and dark contemporary context where racialized realities are front and center, HBO’s “Watchmen” shatters neo-liberal ...
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  Rose-tinted Reboots: Television Remakes and Nostalgia

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  Hannah Green Allegheny College

  March 18, 2017

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  Rose-tinted Reboots: Television Remakes and Nostalgia Television Remakes Rory Gilmore nostalgia Lorelei Gilmore Gilmore Girls FX Fuller House Curator's Note FX Networks CEO John Landgraf terms the staggering number of scripted series (over 400 progra ...
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  The 1980s Called – It Wants Its Vapidity Back: The VMAs go Vaporwave (Again)

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  Padraic Killeen National University of Ireland Galway

  September 14, 2016

  assimilation occurred at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards, during Ariana Grande’s performance of Side To Side ...
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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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  Harmonies of Discord: Pop Oldies and Horror Trailers soundtrack pop songs nostalgia horror cinema aesthetics Curator's Note The use of oldies and covers of oldies in trailers is not a new phenomenon. However, the harmonious discord at work when oldie ...
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  Nostalgic Returns

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  Sara Saljoughi University of Toronto

  August 25, 2015

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  Nostalgic Returns nostalgia Middle East Iran cinema cinema journal In Focus Curator's Note This clip from Ana Lily Amirpour's wildly successful film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) operates through nostalgia for a "lost" period ...
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  Bittersweet: 1990s Russian Commercials for Imported Chocolate

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  Natalia Andrievskikh Binghamton University

  October 30, 2014

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  Bittersweet: 1990s Russian Commercials for Imported Chocolate Russian cyberspace representation nostalgia cultural memory commercials Candyland Audience reception Curator's Note From the Soviet-time deficit of quality chocolate that was accessible to ...
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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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  "Big Easy"—a feeling of horror at the conditions that made Katrina possible, and the longing for ...
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  Oh, What a Primetime Party: The Night is Young on the WB

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  Miranda Banks Loyola Marymount University

  April 03, 2008

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  Oh, What a Primetime Party: The Night is Young on the WB branding idents race HBO sexuality nostalgia Buffy the Vampire Slayer youth culture demographics Dawson's Creek The WB cross-series interaction Charmed Roswell Popular The Jamie Foxx Show 7th H ...

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