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Author:   Elisabeth Wesseling
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9781472474124

ISBN 10:   1472474120
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   13 September 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"CONTENTS Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction, Elisabeth Wesseling Part I: The Cultural Dynamics of Cross-Generational (Re-)appropriation 1 Historical Roots of Consumption-Based Nostalgia for Childhood in the US., Gary Cross 2 Nostalgia or Innovation? The Adaptation of Dutch Children’s Books into Films, Helma van Lierop, 3 Superheroes and Identity: The Role of Nostalgia in Comic Book Culture, Carol Tilley 4 (Re-)Constructing Childhood Memories: Nostalgia, Creativity and the Expanded Worlds of the Lego Fan Community, Lincoln Geraghty Part II: Childhood Nostalgia and Memorial Politics 5 Nostalgic Panoramas of Childhood: Toy Objects in Ireland (1851-1909), Vanessa Rutherford 6 Making Children’s ‘Classics’: Making Past Childhoods Children’s ‘Classics’ as Sites for Memory Politics and Nostalgia, Helle Strandgaard Jensen 7 Propaganda and Nostalgia: Constructing Memories about the German Democratic Republic for Secondary School Children, Luke Springman 8 Communist Childhoods and Nostalgia: A Cultural Analysis of Online Remembrance Strategies (2006-2011), Codruta Pohrib 9 Lost in Nostalgia: Images of Childhood in Photo Books for Children, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer Part III: Modalities of Nostalgia 10 Looking for Asymmetries: A Theoretical Approach to Childhood Nostalgia in Pre-Figurative Culture, Mariano Narodowski 11 Perverse Nostalgia: Child Sex Abuse as Trauma Commodity in Neo-Victorian Fiction, Mel Kohlke 12 ""Scared Straight"" and Beyond: The Presumption of Teenaged Guilt and the Perpetuation of Defeated Paradigms, Joshua Garrison 13 Teenage Nostalgia: Perpetual Adolescents in Little Children (2006) and Young Adult (2011), Anita Wohlmann 14 Ambivalent longings: Nostalgia in the Picturebooks of Pieter Gaudesaboos, Vanessa Joosen 15 Children’s Music and Nostalgia: Digging in the Past with an Eye to the Future, Ingeborg Lunde Vestad 16 Happiness is Quite Common: Postmemory of the 1950s in De Daltons (1999-2010), Elisabeth Wesseling Part IV: Nostalgic Science 17 Comics, Childhood, and Nostalgia: Frederic Wertham and the Comic Book Panic of the 1950s, Andrew O’Malley 18 Back to Where We Came From: Evolutionary Psychology and Children’s Literature and Media, Karin Lesnik-Oberstein and Neil Cocks Notes on Contributors Index"

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Elisabeth Wesseling is Director of the Centre for Gender and Diversity at Maastricht University, The Netherlands.

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