The Uses of the Past in Contemporary Western Popular Culture

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The Uses of the Past in Contemporary Western Popular Culture is written by Tobias Becker and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3031547403 (ISBN 10) and 9783031547409 (ISBN 13).

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the different ways in which the past remains present in Western popular culture in the twenty-first century. It combines theoretical analyses with case study-based chapters focusing on examples from Britain, the US, and Germany, among other countries. In doing so, it pushes beyond a simplistic and monolithic conception of what ‘nostalgia’ is to allow for a more nuanced and varied conceptualisation of this phenomenon, and to also incorporate other ways of understanding the invoking or inclusion of different histories within cultural objects, formats, and practices.