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Retromania
Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
By Reynolds, Simon
- ISBN
- 978-0-86547-994-4
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
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Reviewed on July 8, 2011
In the 21st century, nostalgia is instantaneous. With childhood commercials a click away on YouTube and a huge world musical archive available for digital download, our thirst for the past is unquenchable. Here, Reynolds (Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984) uses critical theory to explore the retro industry and our collective obsession with the immediate past. Reynolds employs Derrida's th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
on onJuly 8, 2011 | LJXpress
In the 21st century, nostalgia is instantaneous. With childhood commercials a click away on YouTube and a huge world musical archive available for digital download, our thirst for the past is unquenchable. Here, Reynolds (Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984) uses critical theory to explore the retro industry and our collective obsession with the immediate past. Reynolds employs Derrida's th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
