Description: Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television.
Brief description: Matthew Leggatt is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Winchester, United Kingdom. He is the editor of Was It Yesterday? Nostalgia in Contemporary Film and Television, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of Play in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction and Cultural and Political Nostalgia in the Age of Terror: The Melancholic Sublime.
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"...a valuable contribution to media studies..." - CHOICE
"All 14 of these diverse and often brilliant essays are revelatory because they accept how much is at stake." - Arts Fuse