Paranoia and Nostalgia in American Popular Culture, 1980-2020
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 16 April 2026
- ISBN 9781666957259
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 232x150x18 mm
- Weight 480 g
- Language English 696
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Short description:
In this book, Owen Cantrell focuses on politics and popular culture in the United States from 1980 to 2020 to argue that the twin structures of feeling of nostalgia and paranoia offered a pathway to address the changed relationship to history in this era that were a result of the backlash politics to the gains of the civil rights movement(s).
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In this book, Owen Cantrell examines politics and popular culture in the United States from 1980 to 2020 to argue that twin structures of feeling-nostalgia and paranoia-have structured American political and cultural life during this period.
These structures have mirrored the changing political relationship to history, race, and culture in the United States, offering a pathway to address these changes, many of which were brought about by the backlash politics introduced in response to the gains of the civil rights movement(s).
Building on Bifo Berardi's contention that ""the future is over,"" Cantrell demonstrates how the concept of the future effectively ended in this era, effectively making this pathway eminently more desirable as a cultural response to political dilemmas. As the future lost its place as a locus of value, then, Cantrell posits that American society entered a state of what Mark Fisher calls ""a failed mourning,"" with paranoid and nostalgic narratives thus offering compensation for a future that no longer felt relevant or even possible. Through a range of compelling analyses of prominent films including Back to the Future, The Matrix, Get Out, and Black Panther, this book effectively demonstrates how paranoia and nostalgia have functioned in American popular culture as it reflected a collective failure to imagine the future.
Table of Contents:
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: ""A Structure of Feeling"": Nostalgia and Paranoia since 1980
1. ""Us and Them"": The Structure of Paranoia
2. Nostalgic Mourning in America
3. Family Relations in the 1980s
4. The End of the World in the 1990s
5. Paranoia and Security in the 2000s
6. Historical Nostalgia and Paranoia in the 2010s
Conclusion: Loss, Reckoning, and Rage in the 2020s and Beyond
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About the Author
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