Watching Nostalgia von Stefanie Armbruster | An Analysis of Nostalgic Television Fiction and its Reception | ISBN 9783839435090

Watching Nostalgia

An Analysis of Nostalgic Television Fiction and its Reception

von Stefanie Armbruster
Buchcover Watching Nostalgia | Stefanie Armbruster | EAN 9783839435090 | ISBN 3-8394-3509-9 | ISBN 978-3-8394-3509-0

Dominik Schrey, MEDIENwissenschaft, 4 (2017): Spannend ist die Arbeit vor allem dort, wo sie sich dem Themenkomplex aus einer dezidiert interdisziplinären Perspektive nähert und aus verschiedenen Modulen ein umfangreiches Theoriegebäude errichtet, um eine möglichst unvoreingenommene Untersuchung zu gewährleisten.

Susanne Eichner, tv diskurs, 82 (2017): Die Publikation bereichert Nostalgie-, Emotions- und Serienforschung gleichermaßen. Unbedingt empfehlenswert.

Besprochen in: GMK-Newsletter, 10 (2016)CHOICE, 54/12 (2017), R. RayBOKAS – Sekundärliteratur, KTS 65, Thomas Przybilka

Watching Nostalgia

An Analysis of Nostalgic Television Fiction and its Reception

von Stefanie Armbruster
What is nostalgia in television? How far does a nostalgic text trigger nostalgic emotions? And how are nostalgic series received by different audience groups? Stefanie Armbruster uses an interdisciplinary approach as analytical and theoretical basis. Her detailed analyses identify nostalgia in reruns, remakes and period dramas such as „Knight Rider“ or „Mad Men“. Focus group discussions with German and Spanish viewers give new insights into its reception. The in-depth study helps to understand the interrelation of nostalgic texts and nostalgic reception better and explores a decisive part of a phenomenon that is omnipresent in our current TV landscape.