Monday 11 April 2011

Making the Future Past Perfect

Discusses the replacement of history by the postmodern age nostalgia as the way of responding and understanding personal and national past. Emphasis of entertainment media productions of the 1980s and early 1990s; Depiction of nostalgia by the media; Necessity of revising the past to re-determine the present; Reason behind the stress on family values.

Gill, P 1997, Technostalia: Making the Future Past Perfect, Camera Obscura, 14, 40/41, p. 163, Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost, viewed 5 April 2011

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