Whether paying tribute to silent films in Hugo or celebrating arcade games in Wreck-It-Ralph, Hollywood suddenly seems to be experiencing a wave of intense nostalgia for outmoded technologies. Flickers of Film offers a nuanced look at the benefits and risks of this nostalgia, considering how it registers industry-wide uncertainty with the dominance of the digital, even as it ignores the people whose livelihoods have been most affected by the economic transformations of the digital era.
Whether paying tribute to silent films in Hugo or celebrating arcade games in Wreck-It-Ralph, Hollywood suddenly seems to be experiencing a wave of intense nostalgia for outmoded technologies. Flickers of Film offers a nuanced look at the benefits and risks of this nostalgia, considering how it registers industry-wide uncertainty with the dominance of the digital, even as it ignores the people whose livelihoods have been most affected by the economic transformations of the digital era.
JASON SPERB is a lecturer of film and media studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He is the author of Blossoms and Blood: Postmodern Media Culture and the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson and Disney’s Most Notorious Film: Race, Convergence, and the Hidden Histories of Disney’s “Song of the South.”
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Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Self-Theorizing Nostalgia 1 I’ll (Always) Be Back: Virtual Performances; or, The Cinematic Logic of Late Capitalism 2 They Saw No Future: New Nostalgia Movies and Digital Exhibition 3 Digital Decasia: Preserving Film, Database Histories, and the Potential Value of Reflective Nostalgia 4 Going Home . . . for the First Time: Pixar Studios, Digital Animation, and the Limits of Reflective Nostalgia 5 TRON Legacies: Disney and Nostalgia Blockbusters in the Age of Transmedia Storytelling 6 Game (Not) Over: Videogame Pastiche and Nostalgic Disavowals in the Post-Cinematic Era Conclusion: On Clouds and Be Kind Rewind Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Self-Theorizing Nostalgia 1 I’ll (Always) Be Back: Virtual Performances; or, The Cinematic Logic of Late Capitalism 2 They Saw No Future: New Nostalgia Movies and Digital Exhibition 3 Digital Decasia: Preserving Film, Database Histories, and the Potential Value of Reflective Nostalgia 4 Going Home . . . for the First Time: Pixar Studios, Digital Animation, and the Limits of Reflective Nostalgia 5 TRON Legacies: Disney and Nostalgia Blockbusters in the Age of Transmedia Storytelling 6 Game (Not) Over: Videogame Pastiche and Nostalgic Disavowals in the Post-Cinematic Era Conclusion: On Clouds and Be Kind Rewind Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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