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Nostalgia, Anxiety, Politics: Media and Performing Arts in Egypt, Central-Eastern Europe, and Russia

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  • Alexandra Bardan
  • Anna Sbitneva
  • James C. Pearce
  • Karen Elizabeth Bishop
  • Miljana Niković
  • Natalia Vasilendiuc
  • Olha Voznyuk
  • Sasha Razor
  • Tetyana Dzyadevych
  • Yelena Severina
  • Yelena Zotova

Abstract

This volume shows that the cultural production of nostalgia is a major tool for structuring feelings of resentment and anxiety. The current volume is concerned with collective nostalgia as it has been elicited, channeled, and weaponized by media production agents. The book aims to analyze how the performing arts and media (music, cinema, TV, etc.) generate and shape the feeling of collective nostalgia. It shows how the cultural production of nostalgia reflects distinct social-political contexts and serves particular political purposes. The collective monograph prioritizes cases from the post-Soviet context. However, the authors do not argue that the collapse of the socialist bloc in general, and the USSR in particular, has established some unique nostalgic precedent. The book claims that mechanisms of producing nostalgia and marshaling it for political purposes are broadly similar in most (modern or postmodern) settings. It is not our intent to demonize Russia, nor do we want Russia to be our dominant frame of reference, even if, in most of our cases here, 'nolens volens' appeared first in Russia-centric post-Soviet discourse. The “Russian bloc” has been placed in the second part of the book in order to give primacy to non-Russian subjects.

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  • Alexandra Bardan & Anna Sbitneva & James C. Pearce & Karen Elizabeth Bishop & Miljana Niković & Natalia Vasilendiuc & Olha Voznyuk & Sasha Razor & Tetyana Dzyadevych & Yelena Severina & Yelena Zotova, 2025. "Nostalgia, Anxiety, Politics: Media and Performing Arts in Egypt, Central-Eastern Europe, and Russia," Vernon Press Titles in Economics, Vernon Art and Science Inc, edition 1, number 2099, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:2099
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