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Revolutionary nostalgia : retromania, neo-burlesque and consumer culture / / Marie-Cécile Cervellon and Stephen Brown



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Autore: Cervellon Marie-Cécile Visualizza persona
Titolo: Revolutionary nostalgia : retromania, neo-burlesque and consumer culture / / Marie-Cécile Cervellon and Stephen Brown Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Bingley, UK : , : Emerald Publishing, , 2018
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (228 pages)
Disciplina: 658.8342
Soggetto topico: Nostalgia - Social aspects
Retromarketing
Consumer behavior
Postmodernism
Social Science - Popular Culture
Society & culture: general
Persona (resp. second.): BrownStephen <1955 March 23->
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Prelims -- Introduction -- 1. Welcome to wonderland -- Section I: Past and present -- 2. Borne back ceaselessly -- 3. Wheel meet again -- 4. Come the revolution -- Section II: Focus and findings -- 5. Burlesque in brief -- 6. Considering consumer culture -- 7. Fans of freedom -- Section III: Context and concepts -- 8. Ghost dance stance -- 9. Retro rising redux -- 10. Dancing is life -- Conclusion -- 11. At the hop -- Appendix 1: definitions of nostalgia -- Appendix 2: list of informants -- References -- Index.
Sommario/riassunto: Nostalgia, they say, is not what it used to be. Once a witticism, this statement about the past has come to pass. Nostalgia really isn't what it used to be. Less than a generation ago, it was regarded as reactionary, as regressive, as reprehensible. Now, it is considered conducive to health, wealth, and human wellbeing. It is something that helps sell products and move merchandise, an underexploited critical resource with emancipatory potential.Nowhere is this transformation better illustrated than in the neo-burlesque community, whose members not only embrace the art-form's golden age, and happily acquire heritage goods and vintage services, but turn their nostalgic leanings to emancipatory effect. They are retro revolutionaries, feather boa-wearing insurgents who find women's liberation in sequins and stilettos.This book shines a spotlight on weapons-grade nostalgia, indicating how it is integral to insurrections throughout history, be they political, technological, or cultural. It reveals, through a combination of empirical ethnographic research and revolutionary literary criticism, the part nostalgia plays in a subversive consumer collective that uses fans, fishnets, and frivolity to fight for the right to party against patriarchy and find a fourth-wave form of female emancipation that foregoes old-school feminist fault-finding for good old-fashioned fun, fun, fun.
Titolo autorizzato: Revolutionary nostalgia  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78769-345-7
1-78769-343-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910795526603321
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