1. //
  2. Start
  3. //
  4. Publications
  5. Nostalgia is not what it used to be
  6. Output formats
  7. //

Nostalgia is not what it used to be: Serial Nostalgia and Nostalgic Series

Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research

Standard

Nostalgia is not what it used to be: Serial Nostalgia and Nostalgic Series. / Wentz, Daniela; Niemeyer, Katharina.
Media and Nostalgia: Yearning for the Past, the Present and the Future. ed. / Katharina Niemeyer. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. p. 129-138.

Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research

Harvard

Wentz, D & Niemeyer, K 2014, Nostalgia is not what it used to be: Serial Nostalgia and Nostalgic Series. in K Niemeyer (ed.), Media and Nostalgia: Yearning for the Past, the Present and the Future. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 129-138. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137375889_10

APA

Wentz, D., & Niemeyer, K. (2014). Nostalgia is not what it used to be: Serial Nostalgia and Nostalgic Series. In K. Niemeyer (Ed.), Media and Nostalgia: Yearning for the Past, the Present and the Future (pp. 129-138). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137375889_10

Vancouver

Wentz D, Niemeyer K. Nostalgia is not what it used to be: Serial Nostalgia and Nostalgic Series. In Niemeyer K, editor, Media and Nostalgia: Yearning for the Past, the Present and the Future. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2014. p. 129-138 doi: 10.1057/9781137375889_10

Bibtex

@inbook{e63e7ec2b44744a7b890b483c6d0efc7,
title = "Nostalgia is not what it used to be: Serial Nostalgia and Nostalgic Series",
abstract = "In the last episode of Season One of the television series Mad Men (AMC, 2007-), Donald Draper, creative director of Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency, pitches an advertising campaign for Kodak{\textquoteright}s new slide projector. Instead of concentrating on its technological newness, as the client wishes, Don emphasises the possibility of a {\textquoteleft}sentimental bond with the product{\textquoteright} and suggests that nostalgia is a powerful way to create this bond. He presents a slide show with photographs from his own family life and names the projector {\textquoteleft}the carousel{\textquoteright}, a carousel that {\textquoteleft}lets us travel the way a child travels, round and round, and back home again{\textquoteright}. The scene condenses a lot of what the series is all about: reconstructing and reimagining the past visually, discursively and historically by portraying and referring to the key political, social, economic and aesthetic elements of former times. But, while Mad Men seems to be the paradigmatic example when it comes to the relationship between television series and nostalgia, it is by no means alone in dealing so overtly with the subject. In fact, there seems to be a trend towards the nostalgic in modern television: The Hour (BBC, 2011-), Boardwalk Empire (HBO, 2010-) and Downton Abbey (ITV, 2010-), for instance, are all evidently vintage in atmosphere. Svetlana Boym would call this pre-existent nostalgia {\textquoteleft}prefabricated{\textquoteright} she would say that they obviate creativity for the future (2001, p. 351).",
keywords = "Media and communication studies, Advertisting Campain, Evening News, Slide Projector, Television Series, Slide Show",
author = "Daniela Wentz and Katharina Niemeyer",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1057/9781137375889_10",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-137-37587-2",
pages = "129--138",
editor = "Katharina Niemeyer",
booktitle = "Media and Nostalgia",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
address = "Switzerland",

}

RIS

TY - CHAP

T1 - Nostalgia is not what it used to be

T2 - Serial Nostalgia and Nostalgic Series

AU - Wentz, Daniela

AU - Niemeyer, Katharina

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - In the last episode of Season One of the television series Mad Men (AMC, 2007-), Donald Draper, creative director of Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency, pitches an advertising campaign for Kodak’s new slide projector. Instead of concentrating on its technological newness, as the client wishes, Don emphasises the possibility of a ‘sentimental bond with the product’ and suggests that nostalgia is a powerful way to create this bond. He presents a slide show with photographs from his own family life and names the projector ‘the carousel’, a carousel that ‘lets us travel the way a child travels, round and round, and back home again’. The scene condenses a lot of what the series is all about: reconstructing and reimagining the past visually, discursively and historically by portraying and referring to the key political, social, economic and aesthetic elements of former times. But, while Mad Men seems to be the paradigmatic example when it comes to the relationship between television series and nostalgia, it is by no means alone in dealing so overtly with the subject. In fact, there seems to be a trend towards the nostalgic in modern television: The Hour (BBC, 2011-), Boardwalk Empire (HBO, 2010-) and Downton Abbey (ITV, 2010-), for instance, are all evidently vintage in atmosphere. Svetlana Boym would call this pre-existent nostalgia ‘prefabricated’ she would say that they obviate creativity for the future (2001, p. 351).

AB - In the last episode of Season One of the television series Mad Men (AMC, 2007-), Donald Draper, creative director of Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency, pitches an advertising campaign for Kodak’s new slide projector. Instead of concentrating on its technological newness, as the client wishes, Don emphasises the possibility of a ‘sentimental bond with the product’ and suggests that nostalgia is a powerful way to create this bond. He presents a slide show with photographs from his own family life and names the projector ‘the carousel’, a carousel that ‘lets us travel the way a child travels, round and round, and back home again’. The scene condenses a lot of what the series is all about: reconstructing and reimagining the past visually, discursively and historically by portraying and referring to the key political, social, economic and aesthetic elements of former times. But, while Mad Men seems to be the paradigmatic example when it comes to the relationship between television series and nostalgia, it is by no means alone in dealing so overtly with the subject. In fact, there seems to be a trend towards the nostalgic in modern television: The Hour (BBC, 2011-), Boardwalk Empire (HBO, 2010-) and Downton Abbey (ITV, 2010-), for instance, are all evidently vintage in atmosphere. Svetlana Boym would call this pre-existent nostalgia ‘prefabricated’ she would say that they obviate creativity for the future (2001, p. 351).

KW - Media and communication studies

KW - Advertisting Campain

KW - Evening News

KW - Slide Projector

KW - Television Series

KW - Slide Show

UR - https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137375872#

U2 - 10.1057/9781137375889_10

DO - 10.1057/9781137375889_10

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-1-137-37587-2

SP - 129

EP - 138

BT - Media and Nostalgia

A2 - Niemeyer, Katharina

PB - Palgrave Macmillan

CY - London

ER -

Other publications by the same author(s)

Bis auf Weiteres: Pinnwand und Serie – Einleitung

Engell, L., Maeder, D., Schröter, J. & Wentz, D., 03.2017, Bis auf Weiteres. Pinnwand und Serie. Engell, L., Maeder, D., Schröter, J. & Wentz, D. (eds.). Marburg: Schüren Verlag, p. 5-10 6 p.

Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Other › Research

Existential Graphs as Ontographic Media

Wentz, D., 2019, In: Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung. 10, 1, p. 177-189 12 p.

Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

Filmische Moderne: 60 Fragmente

Fahle, O. (Editor), Gotto, L. (Editor), Neitzel, B. (Editor), Nowak, L. (Editor), Wagner, H. (Editor), Wendler, A. (Editor) & Wentz, D. (Editor), 27.02.2019, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 462 p.

Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research

Stranger Things (2016)

Wentz, D., 27.02.2019, Filmische Moderne: 60 Fragmente. Fahle, O., Gotto, L., Neitzel, B., Nowak, L., Wagner, H., Wendler, A. & Wentz, D. (eds.). transcript Verlag, p. 439-444 5 p.

Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research

Stranger Things II (2017)

Wentz, D., 27.02.2019, Filmische Moderne: 60 Fragmente. Fahle, O., Gotto, L., Neitzel, B., Nowak, L., Wagner, H., Wendler, A. & Wentz, D. (eds.). transcript Verlag, p. 445-450 6 p.

Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research

DOI

Recently viewed

Activities

  1. The Contract Governance Conference - 2010
  2. Regulation and Innovation
  3. ATES in Germany: II. Combination of Heat Storage and Subsoil Sanitation in Wolfen
  4. Leuphana University Lüneburg and the sustainability challenge: a review and a preview
  5. It Matters When You Do It – Issue Packaging in Multi-Issue Negotiation.
  6. Lemistik
  7. Fakultät Kulturwissenschaften (Organisation)
  8. Cultural Haritage and Memory
  9. Aesthetics of Sustainability: Fostering a sensibility to complexity
  10. Putting the figure on the map: Imagining sameness and difference for children - 2013
  11. Trap-nesting insects´ interactions in an urban-rural gradient
  12. Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" 2015
  13. Exhibition Data, Public Art Institutions, and Data Governance
  14. Theodor Storm, „Geh nicht hinein“
  15. Future Scenarios and Ecosystem Services 2010
  16. 6th Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies - RAST 2013
  17. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft (Verlag)

Publications

  1. A control strategy for electromagnetic near and far field calculation
  2. Requests for reasoning in geometrical textbook tasks for primary-level students
  3. Integration of material flow management tools in workplace environments
  4. Designing Small Touch-Screen Devices
  5. Endogenous environmental policy for small open economies with transboundary pollution
  6. Sol-gel technology for greener and more sustainable antimicrobial textiles that use silica matrices with C, and Ag and ZnO as biocides
  7. The multipole resonance probe
  8. Simultaneous Determination of 11 Sulfonamides by HPLC–UV and Application for Fast Screening of Their Aerobic Elimination and Biodegradation in a Simple Test
  9. Social identity and place-based dynamics in community resilience building for natural disasters
  10. Parameters, concepts and the terminology of outer space law: a review of the essential facilities served by outer space activities and the rules of interpretation for treaty law and soft law guidelines.
  11. How to serve sustainability performance in businesses?
  12. Can radicals get a seat on the negotiation table? A Dynamic Perspective on Legitimation Processes.
  13. DeFacto - Temporal and multilingual deep fact validation
  14. Registered Replication Report on Srull and Wyer (1979)
  15. A Global Synthesis of Jatropha Cultivation
  16. Managing increasing environmental risks through agro-biodiversity and agri-environmental policies
  17. The effects of an active development of the mental model in the training process
  18. Recycling-oriented fabrication of soft robots
  19. Can Pulsed Electric Fields Treated Algal Cells Be Used as Stationary Phase in Chromatography?
  20. Unpacking the Personal Initiative-Performance Relationship
  21. The ten principles of green sample preparation
  22. Christian Steinbacher
  23. Calibration of the Chemcatcher ® passive sampler for monitoring selected polar and semi-polar pesticides in surface water
  24. Uncovering Divergence