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Cultural and Political Nostalgia in the Age of Terror: The Melancholic Sublime - Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies Leggatt, Matthew (University of Winchester, UK) 1st edition
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Cultural and Political Nostalgia in the Age of Terror: The Melancholic Sublime - Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Leggatt, Matthew (University of Winchester, UK)
This book re-examines the role of the sublime across a range of disparate cultural texts, from architecture and art, to literature, digital technology, and film, detailing a worrying trend towards nostalgia and arguing that, although the sublime has the potential to be the most powerful uniting aesthetic force, it currently spreads fear, violence, and retrospection. In exploring contemporary culture, this book touches on the role of architecture to provoke feelings of sublimity, the role of art in the aftermath of destructive events, literature?s establishment of the historical moment as a point of sublime transformation and change, and the place of nostalgia and the returning of past practices in digital culture from gaming to popular cinema.
184 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 17, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138220997 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 156 |
| Dimensions | 235 × 158 × 21 mm · 388 g |
| Language | English |
