[ecrea] 2nd Annual Film & Screen Studies Symposium

*2^nd  Annual Film & Screen Studies Symposium*

*Nostalgia in Art, Media and Popular Culture*

*School of Media*

*Friday 28 April 2017*

Nostalgia is a recurring theme of contemporary popular film, television 
and digital media. Reboots and remakes, sequels and spin-offs fill our 
screens. DVD box sets repackage old shows as new products. Digital 
techniques recreate the look of celluloid, old photography and early 
cinema, as older media formats, such as vinyl and audio cassettes 
experience renewed popularity. Indie videogames evoke retro aesthetics, 
streamed television conspicuously emulates the cinematography of 1980s 
movies, while award winning films reference the musicals of classical 
Hollywood in a combination of irony and sincerity. Advertising, science 
fiction cinema, biopics, children’s television and digital serials are 
engaged in a complex interplay between present and a mediated past as 
much imaginary as actual. What are the meanings, contexts, and 
consequences of such widespread engagement with the past, and how might 
cultural nostalgia be critically theorised?

This event explores the presence of nostalgia in areas of media, art and 
popular culture. All welcome. No requirement to book. Papers to include:

Katherine Farrimond: Retro Noir, Nostalgia and the Femme Fatale

Louise Fitzgerald: “It feels so nostalgic”: Sensory Nostalgia and Haptic 
Empathy

Martin Fradley “The past does matter … it shapes the future”: Shane 
Meadows and Counter Nostalgia

Struan Gray: “To see ourselves again”: Nostalgia for a Dictatorship in 
/Pinochet’s Children/

Francis Hodgson: Photography and Nostalgia

Ewan Kirkland: Nostalgia, Cowboys and Western Mythology in Popular 
Culture for Children

Douglas McNaughton: “A Tourist In Your Own Youth”: Karaoke Sequels and 
Spatialised Nostalgia in Danny Boyle’s /Trainspotting 2/

Aris Mousoutzanis: /Taboo/ and Imperial Nostalgia


Please contact Dr Ewan Kirkland ((e.kirkland /at/ brighton.ac.uk) ) for further 
information.

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