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Fauré, Philippe. "Le fil rompu du temps : une lecture de Nostalghia d'Andreï Tarkovski." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TOU20067.
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Proposer une lecture de Nostalghia à travers une analyse exhaustive, éclairer sa structure, son écriture et ses moyens dans leurs rapports aux réseaux de significations qu’ils véhiculent, dans leurs potentialités à susciter notre sensibilité, tel est le but de ce mémoire. Car la structure d’un film, à tous ses niveaux, est une succession de discontinuités dont la réception est une tresse continue de conscience et d’inconscience. En ce sens, le film est un édifice d’images, de sons, de signes, « réalité figée » qui n’engendre pas une, mais de multiples réceptions sans pour autant invalider le projet du créateur. Le langage d’Andreï Tarkovski est celui de la vérité, nous offrant tout d’abord une extraordinaire puissance du sensible qui puisse susciter une transcendance. Aucune des ressources ici mises en œuvre n’est anodine. Nostalghia, est une réalité organique, un agencement d’images, de sons, autant de fragments de temps et de mémoire, tissés entre eux. Leur plasticité s’impose avant de nous proposer une signification : la sensation au-delà du message, éprouver plutôt que prouverThrough an exhaustive analysis, this dissertation aims to offer a reading of the film Nostalghia, to elucidate its structure, its writing and its cinematographic means, through their potentialities to awaken our sensitivity. Indeed, the structure of the film, on all levels, is a succession of discontinuities whose reception is a continuous interweaving of consciousness and unconsciousness. In that sense, the film is an edifice of images, of sounds and of signs, a "fixed reality" that is not generating just a single reception, but a multiplicity of receptions, without ever invalidating the project of the author. Andreï Tarkovski’s language is one of truth; it offers us primarily an extraordinarily powerful sensorial dimension that is capable of arousing transcendence. None of the resources used in this work is anodyne. Nostalghia is an organic reality, a layout of images and sounds, operating as fragments of time and memory woven together. Their plasticity is what strikes us first, before proposing a signification: it is about the sensation beyond the message; it is about experiencing before proving
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Salmose, Niklas. "Towards a poetics of nostalgia : the nostalgic experience in modern fiction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7728.
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In recent years there has been a body of studies relating nostalgia and fiction in political, sociological, feminist, or historical ways. This thesis, instead, sets out to perform an unusual textual study of nostalgia in modern fiction in order to work towards a poetics of nostalgia. Although the experience of emotion is private, the object of analytical discourse must be to approach this experience with objective tools. The thesis therefore develops a method for analyzing the experience of nostalgia in literary texts and then uses this method to study how nostalgia can be evoked in readers. The method works through close textual readings, developed through reader-response and narratological theories and validated through a thorough investigation of modern nostalgia in general. The result is a taxonomy of nostalgic strategies that possibly create nostalgic reactions in readers.
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Jiang, Mengying. "Does the time Machine exist? : Nostalgic consumption of Chinese one-child generation." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-328180.
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Nostalgia in consumer behavior is shown to be effective. Every generation has their own views of nostalgia. Their ability, proneness and intensity to process nostalgia is different for each generation. The Chinese one-child generation in terms of their special growth environment and characteristics was chosen as the object of study. The thesis begins with the model of nostalgic consumption. The model includes the indirect factors towards nostalgia proneness, the direct factors towards nostalgia intensity and the consumption of nostalgic products. Two qualitative methods were used to collect data, which are the focus group and the individual interview. Two nostalgic brands, one Finnish brand Nokia and a Chinese brand Arctic Ocean Soda (AOS) were used to encourage the discussion of the focus group. There are some surprised results came from the focus group and the following individual interview. These results helped to refine the model. Finally, some suggestions were given to Nokia and AOS companies about how to attract Chinese one-child generation.
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Armbruster, Stefanie. "Screening and Watching Nostalgia An analysis of nostalgic television fiction and its reception in Germany and Spain." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/113487.
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Betti, Matteo, and Iram Jahan Dad. "The Unique Nostalgic Shopper : Nostalgia proneness and desire for uniqueness as determinants of shopping behavior among Millennials." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-30188.
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Millennials, or Generation Y, represent one of today’s most prominent age cohorts: with their increasingly stronger purchasing power and importance in the global economic landscape, it is no wonder that marketers are striving to find new ways to appeal to the taste of this peculiar generation of consumers. Among the various modern research fields in business, one in particular is offering incredibly interesting insights to both scholars and professional marketers: the concept of nostalgia proneness in consumer behavior. While several studies examine the dynamics of this phenomenon, none of them so far examined the impact of nostalgia proneness in shopping behavior, especially examining the dynamics on a sample of Generation Y consumers. This study was conducted in order to explore the dynamics of nostalgia proneness, linking the constructs to both desire for uniqueness and shopping behavior, using the framework provided by the Consumer Styles Inventory (Sproles & Sproles, 1990). After a theoretical review on the matter, several hypotheses and a conceptual model were developed to serve as the core framework of the quantitative analysis. The data, obtained from a convenience sample of 222 respondents, were subsequently examined using several statistical techniques (ANOVA, correlation and factor analysis), with the intent to test the hypotheses and shed light on the research questions. The outcome was then presented and interpreted using both the theoretical background and other complementary relevant literature. The results showed a positive relationship between nostalgia proneness and desire for uniqueness, with both variables being further connected to several shopping traits of the Generation Y consumer. The cluster and factor analysis eventually showed patterns that could be interpreted using the theory of hedonic and utilitarian shopping motivations.
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Wirtén, Lovisa. "Re-aktivering av Smedsudden." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-298834.
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Smedsudden var en gång i tiden en sprudlande udde fylld med konst och skapande, klädd i lummig natur och inramad av svalkande vatten. Med årens gång har udden glömts bort, husen därpå har brunnit och rivits ner. Nu står endast det nergångna Annexet kvar. I detta projekt har jag re-aktiverat Smedsudden genom att rusta upp Annexet som Café med tillhörande Orangeri, tillfört en dansbana i Annexets kulturellt nostalgiska stil, och skapat ett konstmagasin med uppsikt att återigen tända Smedsuddens konstnärliga gnista. Här, mitt i Stockholm, upphör stadsmyllret för en stund och skapar med hjälp av detta projekt återigen en oas för kreativitet, livsglädje och nöje.The cape of Smedsudden depicts a story of a place robbed of its former cultural identity; once a flourishing spot for artists and celebra-tion, it is now rendered barren and culturally obsolete. My project exists as a retort to this delapidation. It conveys a vision of what Smedsud-den could become, and relays to it a new sense of purpose. The new structures on the site are designed to evoke a sense of nostalgia, all the while displaying a delicate touch of Smedsuddens own historical presence. This version of Smedsudden provides the people of Stock-holm with the oppurtunity to reexperience the historically ever-present combination of social leisure and cultural enrichment in the context of idyllic countryside vistas, of vibrant river landscapes and lush foliage — in the heart of Stockholm.
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Romaniko, Pavel. "Nostalgia /." Online version of thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11216.
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Lopes, Francisca Flávia Plutarco. "Apelo nostálgico no produto e na mensagem e sua influência na resposta do consumidor." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/14103.
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This study analyzes the influence of nostalgic appeal (in products and messages) in consumer attitude. I provide a literature review on the concept and studies about nostalgia to develop hypotheses and variables related to nostalgia. To investigate the relationship between the nostalgic appeal of the message and the product and the attitude toward the advertising, the attitude toward the product and purchase intention, a qualitative research through interviews with thirteen people, six consumer and seven professionals related to the theme. The analysis of interviews were conducted by content analysis. The results were categorized and resulting proposals of the interviews were developed on the mark whit nostalgic appeal and influence on consumer identification and purchase intention, the time of the relationship in a social group with proneness to nostalgia of the group members and the purchase intention and the nostalgic appeal (in products and messages) and purchase intention moderate by the appreciation level of consumer for its culture. This research, with the literature review, served as empirical basis for the quantitative study and hypotheses related to the nostalgic appeal in the product and in the message moderate by involvement with the product and proneness to nostalgia and the influences in attitude toward the ad, attitude toward the product and purchase intention. For the quantitative work were realized two studies, one study was pilot test, were conducted with three experiments each that allowed the test of hypotheses through analysis of variance and covariance analysis. Among the results, it was observed that the combined use between nostalgic appeal in the message and in the product has a better effect on the presentation of an advertisement which facilitates the consumers understanding. The nostalgic appeal in the product directly influenced the attitude towards the advertisement, attitude toward the product and purchase intention. The differences between genders and social classes in the respondents and the finding concerning the involvement with the product and the proneness to nostalgia as covariates were highlighted. In the end, the final considerations, the theoretical and practical implications, limitations and future directions.
O presente trabalho teve por objetivo analisar a influência do apelo nostálgico na atitude do consumidor. O trabalho foi iniciado com uma revisão de literatura sobre a conceituação e os estudos sobre a nostalgia, em seguida, o desenvolvimento das hipóteses e possíveis variáveis relacionadas à nostalgia. Para verificar a relação entre o apelo nostálgico da mensagem e do produto e a atitude em relação à propaganda, a atitude em relação ao produto e a intenção de compra, foi desenvolvida uma pesquisa qualitativa por meio de entrevistas com treze pessoas, seis consumidores e sete profissionais de áreas relacionadas ao tema. A análise das entrevistas foi realizada pela análise de conteúdo. Os resultados foram categorizados e foram desenvolvidas proposições advindas das entrevistas sobre a marca com apelo nostálgico e a influência na identificação do consumidor e a intenção de compra, o tempo de relacionamento de um grupo social com a propensão à nostalgia dos membros do grupo e a intenção de compra e o apelo nostálgico (em produtos e mensagens) e a intenção de compra moderados pelo nível de valorização do consumidor pela sua cultura. Esta pesquisa, juntamente com a pesquisa bibliográfica, serviu de base empírica para o estudo quantitativo e para as hipóteses da pesquisa relacionadas ao apelo nostálgico no produto e na mensagem moderados pelo envolvimento com o produto e a propensão à nostalgia e as influências na atitude em relação à propaganda, atitude em relação ao produto e na intenção de compra. Para o trabalho quantitativo foram realizados dois estudos, um estudo foi de caráter piloto, com três experimentos cada que permitiram o teste das hipóteses por meio de análise de variância e análise de covariância. Entre os resultados, observou-se que o uso combinado entre o apelo nostálgico na mensagem e no produto possui um efeito melhor na apresentação de uma propaganda o que facilita a compreensão dos consumidores. O apelo nostálgico no produto influenciou diretamente na atitude em relação à propaganda, atitude em relação ao produto e na intenção de compra. As diferenças entre os sexos e as classes sociais dos respondentes e o achado em relação ao envolvimento com o produto e a propensão à nostalgia como covariáveis foram evidenciados. Ao final, são apresentadas as considerações finais, as implicações teóricas e práticas, as limitações e direcionamentos futuros.
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Krill, Jon Jerome. "Forget Nostalgia." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4077.
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When put to the question, "What are your poetics?" I usually answer that I tend toward lyrical and narrative surrealism. Most of the poems in this thesis collection have discernible through-lines, or at least some sense of "aboutness." Across these poems, however, I've experimented with various poetic tools in an attempt to refract experience rather than entirely abstract it. For example, by varying identities and locations of the speaker, some poems achieve a surrealist sense while maintaining proximity to the lyrical or narrative. Some have multiple speakers, and speakers of undefined identity, which further defamiliarizes their language. Another tool I work with is address: to the reader in some poems, between "actors" in other poems, or addresses from speakers to agencies or forces that seem to reside beyond the poem. In this sense, much of this work is performative. Variations in diction, within and across poems, add to both their surreal and performative qualities. Wide variation in form has been another impulse in my work. It has been an exercise in shapeshifting, an often obsessive practice of reworking poems in different structural arrangements, releasing and altering meaning along the way. In many cases, disforming and reforming poems as I revised them felt akin to erasure, a means of abandoning intent. In its eclecticism, I hope this collection reflects how abruptly, how discordantly, language and images are now enabled to encounter us––via what we might consider to be our own devices.
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Otto, Zimmann Martin. "A Place Apart: The Role of Nostalgia in a Detached Community." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1309889441.
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Dalrymple, James. "Jouer au détective chez Kazuo Ishiguro et dans le whodunit métafictionnel britannique." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017GREAL009/document.
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Nous constatons que le genre policier a été une riche source d’inspiration pour des écrivains souvent associés au roman postmoderne. Pour la plupart, les études sur ces réécritures du genre se concentrent sur des auteurs non britanniques, notamment Alain Robbe-Grillet, Paul Auster, Umberto Eco, Jorge Luis Borges et Vladimir Nabokov.Cette étude propose d’analyser des romans et une série britanniques,ainsi qu’un film anglo-américain, réécrivent le whodunit à travers l’intertextualité, la parodie et l’autoréflexivité. Dans ces œuvres métafictionnelles, qui sont toutes apparues depuis le début des années 1980, nous nous demandons si les attentes du roman policier ont complètement basculé ou si elles demeurent, au service d’un autre but.Au lieu de subvertir les conventions du genre classique, nous nous demandons au contraire si les œuvres du corpus les déploient afin de mener une autre enquête : une enquête sur l’histoire et l’identité britannique ? Alors que les œuvres reflètent la crise de confiance envers la représentation de l’histoire qui marque la période dite « postmoderne », reste-il l’espoir de résoudre rationnellement les mystères et les souffrances du passé ? Par conséquent, ces œuvres reflètent-elles une rupture du genre policier ou plutôt la continuité ?The detective story has been a rich source of inspiration for writers associated with postmodern fiction. For the most part, critical studies of these attempts to rewrite the genre have focused on non-British authors, including Alain Robbe-Grillet, Paul Auster, Umberto Eco, Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov. This study proposes to analyze British novels, a film and a television series which, similarly, rewrite the whodunit through intertextuality, parody and the self-reflexiveness.In these metafictional works, which have all appeared since the beginning of the 1980s, we ask if the expectations invoked by the detective story are completely frustrated or rather if they are employed in the service of another goal. Rather than subvert the conventions of the genre, we ask instead if the works in the corpus deploy them in order to conduct an investigation of another sort: an investigation into British history and identity. While the works reflect in part the crisis of confidence in historical representation that characterizes the postmodern period, we ask whether they display any faith in our ability to rationally unravel the mysteries and the sufferings of the past. In answering these questions we will decide if these works reflect a total break from the detective genre or, in fact, continuity with it
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Welch, Allison Pearl Snow. "Necessity and nostalgia." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1107.
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Why do we keep things? To remember.
Bedside tables are our modern-day altars, places where habit, respect, mystery, and love collide. Our physical materials wait while we travel through dreams, coaxing us back into activity come morning. Books and remote controls summon sleep, alarm clocks and written reminders startle the mind into a wakeful state. But not all objects are directly linked to sleeping or waking; some things simply exist to comfort us, reflecting our need to gather, collect, and nest.
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Nai, Sen Yang Israel. "Dispositions of Nostalgia." Thesis, Curtin University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/78805.
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This research aims to (1) conduct a systematic literature review (SLR) on the subject domain of nostalgia within the marketing/advertising context. Specifically, the review concentrates on published studies from 1979 to 2019, (2) conceptualise and operationalise a conceptual framework (nostalgia-disposition framework) for advertising practitioners through the understanding of three different consumer dispositions, and (3) investigate the moderating effects of brand-related variables such as brand heritage and brand attachment on the nostalgia-disposition framework across three furniture brands.
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Çeler, Zafer. "Temporality in the postmodern times and the ottoman nostalgia in Turkey." Thesis, Paris 1, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA01D093.
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En Turquie, il y a un intérêt croissant pour le passé ottoman au cours de la décennie dernière. Le désir pour le passé ottoman semble envahir la société turque. Les images, les objets et les discours liés à l'histoire ottomane ont fait leur apparition dans les séries télévisuelles, les discours politiques, les manifestations sur les médias sociaux, dans l'architecture et la décoration de maison. Cette étude vise à comprendre les raisons d'un tel essor pour le passé ottoman dans la société turque par rapport à la transformation de l'histoire, et les changements dans les modes d'engagement avec le passé dans les sociétés occidentales modernes. Elle tente d'analyser ce nouvel intérêt à travers les références à la fois à la dynamique interne de la modernisation turque et aux changements structurels plus généraux au sein des sociétés modernes. Les débats sur le néo-ottomanisme affirment que cet intérêt est le résultat de la stratégie politique turque dans la scène politique internationale, ou bien qu'il est une tentative délibérée du gouvernement conservateur pour mettre en place un nouveau discours historique. Cette étude, au-delà de ces arguments, soutient que l'intérêt trouvé vers le passé ottoman est une conséquence de la convergence des changements et des ruptures que la société turque a confronté depuis les années 1980 et des continuités au sein de la modernisation turque.La transformation et les changements survenus après par l'intégration de l'économie turque au réseau néo-libéral mondial ne sont pas seulement limités au domaine économique, mais aussi ont affecté les structures sociales, culturelles et politiques. Cette formation sociale a provoqué la transformation des formes d'engagement avec le passé de la société turque. À cet égard, la montée de la nostalgie ottomane implique un changement structurel de la société, ce qui nécessite d'éclairer les changements que les sociétés modernes ont subi à la suite du capitalisme tardif et de son édifice néo-libéral. Cette transformation a provoqué un changement de la temporalité où le passé devient une réserve de références ahistoriques. La temporalité post-moderne provoque l'effondrement des structures sociales, politiques et culturelles dans un abîme des références vides ahistorique à la suite de détemporalisation de l'histoire. La nostalgie ottomane de la société turque peut être expliquée par rapport à ce changement temporal. D'autre part, parmi ces changements et la transformation, les continuités des caractéristiques fondamentales de la modernisation turque devraient également être soulignées. L'intégration de la société turque dans l'économie de marché néo-libéral a été réalisé par un coup d'État qui a créé une condition sociale dans laquelle une vaste autoritarisme de l’État et de l'économie de marché libre ont existé côte à côte. Cette étude affirme que la caractéristique fondamentale définissant la modernisation de la Turquie est un modernisme réactionnaire. Celui-ci est entendu dans ce travail comme une adaptation sélective de la modernité occidentales.C’est dans l’objectif d'éviter les complexités de la société moderne. Cela a causé une réduction de modernisation au développementalisme monolithique. Ce modernisme réactionnaire s'établit à travers une distinction fondamentale entre la civilisation et la culture. Dans cette distinction, alors que la civilisation signifie un développement technologique, la culture se réfère aux caractéristiques innées de la nation comme des caractéristiques étrangères aux idéaux universels des Lumières. Du kémalisme organiciste, corporatiste et solidariste au néo-libéralisme autoritaire de la période post-1980, le modernisme réactionnaire se soutient comme une caractéristique essentielle et continue de la modernisation turque. [...]In Turkey, there has been an increasing interest towards the Ottoman past in recent years. The appetite for the Ottoman past seems invading the Turkish society. The images, objects and discourses related to the Ottoman history have been appearing in from television series, political discourses and manifestations to social media, from architecture to house decorations. This study aims to understand the reasons for such a revival of the Ottoman past in Turkish society within the framework of the transformation of the history, and the changes in the ways of engagement with the past in modern societies. It attempts to analyse this new interest through the references both to the internal dynamics of the Turkish modernisation and to the more general structural changes within the modern societies. The debates over the neo-Ottomanism either claim that it is strategic policy in the international political stage, or assert that it is a deliberate attempt of the conservative government to establish a new historical discourse. This study, beyond these arguments, contends that the interest towards the Ottoman past is a consequence resulting from the convergence of the changes and ruptures that the Turkish society has been experiencing since the 1980s and of the continuities within the Turkish modernisation. The transformation and changes brought by the integration of the Turkish economy into the global neo-liberal network were not only limited to the economic field, but also affected the social, cultural and political structures. This social constitution caused the transformation of the ways and forms of engagement with the past in the Turkish society. In this regard, the surge of the Ottoman nostalgia implies a structural change of society that can only be explained through illuminating the changes that the modern societies have been undergoing as a result of the arrival of late-capitalism and its neo-liberal edifice. This transformation brought up a change in the temporality in which the past becomes a reserve of ahistorical references. The late-modern or post-modern temporality causes the collapse of the social, political and cultural structures into an abyss of the ahistoric empty references as a result of detemporalisation the history. The Ottoman nostalgia in the Turkish society can be explained within this change of temporality. On the other hand, among these changes and transformation, the continuities of the fundamental characteristics of the Turkish modernisation should also be emphasised. The integration of the Turkish society into the neo-liberal market economy was brought up by a coup d’état which created a social condition in which extensive state authoritarianism and free-market economy have existed side by side. This study claims that the fundamental characteristic defining the Turkish modernisation is reactionary modernism which means a selective approach to modernity in order to avoid the complexities of the modern society by reducing the modernisation into monolithic developmentalism. Reactionary modernism establishes itself on a fundamental distinction between civilisation and culture. In this distinction, while civilisation means a technological development, culture refers to the innate characteristics of the nation as alien features to the universal ideals of the Enlightenment. From the organicist, solidarist corporatism of Kemalism to the neo-liberal free-market authoritarianism of the post-1980 period, the reactionary modernism sustained itself as the continuing characteristic of the Turkish modernisation. [...]
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Nguyen, Phuong Thao. ""Nostalgia for the present": Digital nostalgia and mediated authenticity on Instagram." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-144082.
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Retro art and technology have been on the rise in recent years, the phenomenon is fuelled by the nostalgia of a sense of authenticity that the offline world can no longer satisfy. The integration of technology into human’s social conduct has made it an extension of their beings. Faced with technological progress, people also yearn to regress to the age-old days of their childhood. Nostalgia often comes with romanticization of the past, but it also offers a sense of security and realness that is seemingly lost amid the constant exchange of data in the present time. This lays ground for the rise of faux-vintage photos on social application Instagram. Bracing itself as a modern digital media, Instagram capitalizes on nostalgia for the analog and fetishization of the retro aesthetics of old media. While researchers have noted the link between Instagram and digital nostalgia, these works remained within the theoretical realm. Using a combination of interface criticism and interview, the paper focuses on human and computer interaction to study digital nostalgia and mediated authenticity on Instagram. The findings point out the complexity of Instagram as a social network and a creative tool in the emerging age of pervasive computing, in which the technology increasingly integrates and fades into the background of our everyday lives. The paper’s intention is to develop further understanding of retromodern technology, particularly Instagram, in reconstructing our knowledge of society and everyday social conduct. A better comprehension of our digital culture is crucial to the development of the self and society.
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Nicéphore, Anastasia. "Platωn’s Reality: Baudrillard’s Nostalgia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15298.
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Platωn has been praised as one of the first western critical thinkers to query the social function of literature, which is seen in terms of a sociocultural and theoretical framework, and predicated on philosophical and political ideas relating to the “Ideal State” (Republic, 380 BCE).[1] In a sense, Platωnestablishes the principle that literature should cut through to the notion of an ideal truth rather than be used as a vehicle for subjective visions and aesthetic tropes by those claiming to be ‘artists.’To engage with this centrality of human consciousness means to integrate a single source of origin: a Platωnic “οὐσία.” Nonetheless,contemporary hermeneutics draw upon perceptions that the origin is elliptic in postmodern and continental philosophical trains of thought. Moreover,much obscurity arises from; difficulties in translation, incongruent grammatical structures differing Classical Greek from English, Platωn’s own insistence on over-emphasis, and what some philosophers and philologists would consider ‘taut tautology’ – which leaves vast amounts of passages in Pre-Socratic manuscripts and Platωnic dialogues open to speculation and subjectivity.Within my discipline, philosophical debates center on the difficulty of pinpointing truth, the real, or some definitive and/or tangible self-referential core within an age of pluralism and uncertainty. For this reason, current scholarship can gain much from clarifying these ubiquitous areas. Through comparative constructs, the nature of the novel, its evolution over time and inclusion of postmodernist technologies, cyber-capitalism, and accompanying symbols, bring us to question the real and human exigency. Could it be that “unlimited experimentation” within and upon a text warrants an aesthetic surface that construes a morally heinous environment? In The Illusion of the End,[2] Baudrillard probes this concept by vivifying that a lack of substance –an “exponential instability” (110) –is invariably transmuting into an altogether absent entity. Within this displacement, my doctoral thesis juxtaposes Platωnic exegesis of the real –the “οὐσία” –and Baudrillardian aporia of current modes of reality for the body politic. Thus the question, is Baudrillard’s nostalgia for the real rooted in the origins of theory, Platωn’s real –the “οὐσία”? Further, the examination of a relatively new area of concern within the temporality of postmodernity – the extent to which social acceleration influences ways of thinking and narrating.
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Kalinina, Ekaterina. "Mediated Post-Soviet Nostalgia." Doctoral thesis, Södertörns högskola, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-24576.
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Post-Soviet nostalgia, generally understood as a sentimental longing forthe Soviet past, has penetrated deep into many branches of Russian popular culture in the post-1989 period. The present study investigates how the Soviet past has been mediated in the period between 1991 and 2012 as one element of a prominent structure of feeling in present-day Russian culture. The Soviet past is represented through different mediating arenas – cultural domains and communicative platforms in which meanings are created and circulated. The mediating arenas examined in this study include television, the Internet, fashion, restaurants, museums and theatre. The study of these arenas has identified common ingredients which are elements of a structure of feeling of the period in question. At the same time, the research shows that the representations of the past vary with the nature of the medium and the genre. The analysis of mediations of the Soviet past in Russian contemporary culture reveals that there has been a change in the representations of the Soviet past during the past twenty years, which roughly correspond to the two decades marked by the presidencies of Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s and of Vladimir Putin in the 2000s (including Dmitrii Medvedev's term, 2008–2012). The critical and reflective component that was present in representations of the Soviet past in the 1990s has slowly faded away, making room first for more commercial and then for political exploitations of the past. Building on Svetlana Boym's conceptual framework of reflective and restorative nostalgia, the present study provides an illustration of how reflective nostalgia is being gradually supplanted by restorative nostalgia. Academic research has provided many definitions of nostalgia, from strictly medical explanations to more psychological and socio-cultural perspectives. The present study offers examples of how nostalgia functions as a label in ascribing political and cultural identities to oneself and to others, creating confusion about the term and about what and who can rightly be called nostalgic.
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Figueroa, Flores Ximena. "Poética del desarraigo : exilio, extrañamiento, nostalgia en cuatro poetas de Valparaiso (Alicia Galaz, Osvaldo Rodríguez, Luis Mizón y Eduardo Embry)." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA109.
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L’objectif principal de cette thèse est d’examiner la représentation de l’exil dans un corpus d’œuvres de quatre poètes originaires de Valparaiso : Alicia Galaz, Osvaldo Rodríguez, Luis Mizón et Eduardo Embry; auteurs partis en exil après le coup d’État de 1973 et ayant créé depuis la distance un discours poétique sur le déracinement. Notre choix s’est porté sur cinq recueils de poèmes, trois en langue castillane, les deux autres en langue française, tous écrits en dehors du Chili (en Europe et aux États-Unis, lieux d’accueil des auteurs), des années 80 à nos jours. Les voici: Señas distantes de lo preferido (1990) d’Alicia Galaz, Cantos de extramuros (1994) d’Osvaldo Rodríguez, les œuvres lyriques en français de Luis Mizón: Province perdue (1988) et Marée basse. Suivi de six arbres (2012), et l’anthologie poétique d’Eduardo Embry Al revés de las cosas que en este mundo fenecen (2010). Selon nous, ces créations constituent un type alternatif d’écriture à partir de et sur l’exil chilien dont l’intérêt, contrairement aux écritures « canoniques » de cette période, ne réside pas dans la composition d’un témoignage visant à dénoncer la dictature militaire de Pinochet, ni dans la construction d’un imaginaire représentatif de l’agonie de l’identité nationale lié à cet événement. Il s’agit davantage d’observer l’élaboration discursive d’une évocation nostalgique du lieu provincial d’origine et d’un passé heureux (avant l’exil), exprimant la réinvention subjective de l’expérience du déplacement. Notre réflexion s’articule autour de l’écriture de la mémoire émanant de l’identité littéraire et linguistique des poètes ainsi que sur les différents niveaux de configuration de l’élégie. L’analyse comparée a dégagé cinq aspects récurrents dans les œuvres du corpus qui nous ont permis d’établir cinq catégories caractérisant la poétique du déracinement: le déplacement territorial; le déplacement émotionnel; l’étrangeté et l’« entre-deux »; la méta-poétique; et la critique à la modernisationThe principle purpose of this thesis is to examine the representation of exile in the selected work of four poets native to Valparaíso: Alicia Galaz, Osvaldo Rodríguez, Luis Mizón and Eduardo Embry; that were exiled from Chile after the 1973 coup d'état and created, from a distance, a poetic discourse on estrangement. Five books of poetry are discussed, three of which were writen in Spanish and two in French, outside of Chile (in Europe and the United States, places of refuge for the authors) and from the 1980s to the present day. These are: the book of poetry by Alicia Galaz, Señas distantes de lo preferido (1990); the book of poetry Cantos de extramuros (1994), by Osvaldo Rodríguez; the lyrical works in French by Luis Mizón: Province perdue (1988) and Marée basse. Suivi de six arbres (2012); and the poetic anthology by Eduardo Embry, Al revés de las cosas que en este mundo fenecen (2010). We postulate that these creations constitute an alternative type of writing from and about Chilean exile, that unlike the “canonical” writings from this period, their interest does not lie in articulating a testimonial of condemnation about what occurred during the Pinochet dictatorship, nor do they construct imagery that represents broken national identity. These discourses construct a nostalgic evocation of the provincial place of origin and a happy past (prior to exile), expressing the subjective reinvention of the common experience. We will review the following issues: the type of memorial writing they construct; the literary and/or linguistic identity of the poets; and their different levels of eulogy. Through the comparative analysis of the works, we have been able to determine five recurring literary themes, those that collectively constitute the categories that define our proposal concerning the poetic of uprooting: geographic displacement; emotional displacement; estrangement and "in-between"; the meta-poetics; and the critique of modernization, which we carefully examine throughout this investigation
El propósito principal de esta tesis es examinar la representación del exilio en la obra seleccionada de cuatro poetas oriundos de Valparaíso: Alicia Galaz, Osvaldo Rodríguez, Luis Mizón y Eduardo Embry; autores que fueron exiliados de Chile tras el golpe de estado de 1973 y que crearon desde la distancia un discurso poético sobre el desarraigo. Se trata de cinco poemarios, escritos tres de ellos en lengua castellana y dos en lengua francesa, fuera de Chile (en Europa y Estados Unidos, lugares de acogida de los autores), desde los años 80 hasta la actualidad. Estos son: el poemario de Alicia Galaz Señas distantes de lo preferido (1990); el poemario Cantos de extramuros (1994) de Osvaldo Rodríguez; las obras líricas en francés de Luis Mizón: Province perdue (1988) y Marée basse. Suivi de six arbres (2012); y la antología poética de Eduardo Embry Al revés de las cosas que en este mundo fenecen (2010). Postulamos que estas creaciones conforman un tipo alternativo de escritura desde y sobre el exilio chileno, que a diferencia de las escrituras “canónicas” de este período, su interés no radica en articular un testimonio de denuncia de lo acontecido durante la dictadura militar de Pinochet, ni tampoco construir un imaginario representativo de la identidad nacional en quiebre a causa de este evento. Estos discursos evocan nostálgicamente el lugar provinciano de origen y un pasado feliz (anterior al exilio), expresando la reinvención subjetiva de la experiencia del destierro. Entre las diversas problemáticas que emprendemos se encuentran: el tipo de escritura memorial que construyen; la identidad literaria y/o lingüística de los poetas; y sus diferentes niveles de elaboración de la elegía. El análisis comparado nos ha permitido determinar cinco rasgos temáticos recurrentes en las obras, los que definen las categorías que, en su conjunto, conforman la propuesta de la poética del desarraigo: el desplazamiento territorial; el desplazamiento emocional; el extrañamiento y el “entredós”; la metapoética; y la crítica a la modernización, las que trabajamos detenidamente a lo largo de toda esta investigación
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Dimitriadou, Marika. "Nostalgia and ethnocentric product preferences." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/38624.
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Understanding consumers' preferences is central in marketing. Their tendency to prefer products of domestic rather than foreign origin, and the impact their emotional and affective state has on their purchasing decisions are well-documented in the literature. This thesis connects these two research themes by examining the impact feelings of nostalgia have on ethnocentric product preferences. The focus on nostalgia is not accidental. Advertising and marketing campaigns of several multinational companies have recently attempted to trigger such feelings amongst consumers in order to promote their products. The thesis begins by offering a more robust investigation for the presence of country of origin effects and the impact of consumer ethnocentrism on it, using a multi- cultural sample and measuring individuals' actual preferences. Using separate inducements for nostalgia - at the 'personal' level, referring to past events the consumers experienced alone, and at the 'collective' level, referring to past events the consumers experienced in the company of others - it proceeds by providing evidence suggesting that feelings of nostalgia significantly increase preferences for domestic products, as well as ratings of their perceived quality. Both inducements have similar effects on preferences and ratings. Subsequently investigating the underlying psychological mechanism responsible for the effect of nostalgia on ethnocentric product preferences, the thesis provides evidence that self-reported 'meaning of life' - a composite measure previously linked to nostalgia - is a significant mediator of this effect; having a significantly positive indirect effect on both preferences for and ratings of domestic products. The thesis concludes by discussing the implications these findings have for man- agerial practice and outlining future directions for marketing research in this field.
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Lindermann, Díaz Leonardo. "La nostalgia en el autorretrato." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2007. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/101675.
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Para adentrarnos en el tema “Nostalgia en el Autorretrato” iremos en busca de aquella época que fue tierra fértil para que el hombre se reconociera como individuo y se representara como tal mediante un sentimiento humanista, que muy temprano fue sutilmente modificando el concepto teológico y ontológico de una iglesia medieval, que se resistía desde sus cúpulas a estas nuevas revoluciones intelectuales y que, sin embargo, desde sus cimientos comienza el deterioro de aquellas concepciones que conformaban la fortaleza de la verticalidad de aquellas catedrales francesas. Dicho de otro modo, la antigua y elevada cultura clásica desde su reaparición en el siglo XII comienza su lento proceso revolucionario, erosionando un escenario social que mostrara sus resultados más concretos en los siglos XIV y XV del renacimiento italiano.
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PEREIRA, MARIANA LOPES DA SILVA. "MEMORABLE TOURISM EXPERIENCES AND NOSTALGIA." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2017. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=30714@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROO turismo pode reviver experiências e momentos que ficaram no passado. Este estudo identifica dimensões por meio das quais experiências memoráveis provocam nostalgia em relação a locais de turismo. Foram conduzidas quinze entrevistas em profundidade, analisadas com base em métodos da filosofia fenomenológica. Experiências memoráveis que remetem a sentimentos nostálgicos não parecem ser necessariamente relacionadas aos locais ou destinos, mas à reprodução de sensações e emoções ali vivenciadas, ou à lembrança de momentos passados com familiares, amigos próximos ou parceiros românticos.
Tourism may relive experiences and moments from the past. This study identifies dimensions from memorable tourism experiences which can lead to nostalgia related to tourism locations. We proceeded fifteen interviews that were analyzed based on phenomelogical method. The main findings show that memorable experiences which create nostalgic feelings don t seem to be necessarily related to locations or touristic destinations, but to sensations and emotions lived there, or moments experienced with family, with closer friends or in romantic relationships.
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White, Cheyenne. "Nostalgia and the Physical Book." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1617367598606743.
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Gonlin, Marion. "Nostalgia Games: Replaying The Past." Thesis, Department of Media and Communications, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18630.
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This thesis aims to analyse the function of a “nostalgia game” – games that intentionally reference to the past to broaden their appeal. The two games chosen for analysis are Yacht Club Games’ Shovel Knight (2014) and Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017). Shovel Knight exemplifies a game purposefully designed as a celebration of classic videogames on the NES form the late 1980s to early 1990s by using retro aesthetics and old game design conventions. Breath of the Wild demonstrates how a game series looks to its roots for innovation – the original Legend of Zelda released in 1986. The analysis will be divided in two sections for each game. The first section looks at the recurrence of game mechanics and references both games make through the concept of “remediation” (Bolter & Grusin, 1999) and how the games use nostalgia. The second section looks at the micro-temporalities of the games and how they reflect the games they are referencing. These micro-temporalities are referred to as “seriality” (Denson & Jahn-Sudmann, 2015). The wider purpose of this thesis is to lay the groundwork for future research into the field of nostalgic videogames.
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Olguín, Espinoza Paulina. "La nostalgia de la imagen." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2017. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/164078.
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Artista textilEn la presente memoria pretendo analizar y describir el proceso de elaboración del proyecto La nostalgia de la imagen, tanto desde lo reflexivo como desde lo técnico. Este trabajo nace de la necesidad de reconstruir mi historia en un reencuentro con el hacer, así como también, del anhelo de hallar y comprender los elementos que me llevaron a producir un trabajo que se caracteriza por estar principalmente ligado con mi historia familiar, recuerdos y relaciones que he establecido con las materialidades y las técnicas textiles. Este escrito se estructura en torno a tres temas centrales: memoria, técnica y materialidad, y obra. De estos conceptos se desprenden diversos problemas tales como la idea de la imagen como recurso facilitador del recuerdo, el tiempo, la experiencia, así como las técnicas textiles, en particular las utilizadas para la representación, como por ejemplo el bordado, las distintas materialidades y sus desplazamientos. En términos de antecedentes realizo una revisión de ejercicios previos que me permiten recoger desde mi propio proceso la experiencia de reconstruir imágenes que emergen desde la memoria.
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Marchegiani, Christopher A. "Conceptualising personal and historical nostalgia." Thesis, Curtin University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2252.
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The purpose of this research was to extend the knowledge on two distinct types of nostalgia; Personal and Historical. Previous empirical research has studied nostalgia only as a unified concept. Two scales were developed and validated to measure these responses independently of each other. Hypotheses were developed based on extant literature which postulated significant changes in cognitive, emotional, attitudinal, and intention responses as a result of the response type. A model incorporating these consumer reactions was extended and tested. Finally, the effects of varying intensities of the two response types were explored independently of each other.An experimental research design was used with a sound methodology developed though previous studies. A variety of statistical techniques deemed appropriate for each step of the analysis was used. These included both qualitative and quantitative techniques including structural equation modelling and multivariate analyses.Results show significant differences in the consumer behaviour responses examined as a result of the type of nostalgic response being elicited. The examined responses of cognition, emotions, attitudes, and intention are of high significance to academics and managers alike. In terms of comparing Personal and Historical Nostalgia to one another, Personal Nostalgia had a tendency to be more beneficial in the majority of consumer reactions. A model of these reactions was successfully extended and shown to differ between the conditions illustrating the need to explore these reactions independently. Varying levels of intensity of each specific nostalgic response type were shown to have significant effects on the examined consumer behaviour responses also. As a very general statement of the findings, it was found to be worthwhile to raise the levels of Personal or Historical Nostalgia to as high a level as possible to significantly positively alter emotions, attitudes, and intention. However, although significant cognitive changes were seen between low and mid levels of each nostalgic reaction, moving to a high level was found to have no significant impact on cognitive reactions.The most significant contributions of the research are the development of the two specific scales independently of each other through seven studies, and substantiating the hypothesised differences between the two responses with empirical evidence. These findings bridge many important gaps in the literature. Personal and Historical Nostalgia had previously only been conceptually discussed, with little to no empirical data, despite evidence of both types in the market place. The varying costs and benefits of evoking the two nostalgic responses, or varying levels of either, were unknown until now. This research results in several conceptual, methodological, and managerial implications especially valuable to academics, strategists, and industry policy makers. It also provides a solid foundation for numerous future studies.
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Halvarsson, Linda. "Nostalgi : En socialantropologisk studie om platser och föremål som aktiverar och bevarar personliga och kollektiva minnen." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-157502.
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Studien undersöker den fysiska platsen Gamla Linköping där staden Linköping rekonstruerar och bevarar sin kollektiva historia genom de byggnader och de personliga minnen och berättelser som idag tillsammans utgör ett levande museum. Hus och byggnader har flyttats från sina ursprungliga platser runt om i staden och vissa har fått en helt ny funktion i Gamla Linköping. Studien undersöker även personliga minnen och kollektiva berättelser från informanter i Linköping för att besvara de frågeställningar rörande Gamla Linköpings betydelse för staden, varför behovet av rekonstruktion finns och vilken betydelse personliga minnen har för studiens informanter. Slutsatser som dras i studien är att Gamla Linköping berättar om de enskilda människornas vardag och miljö i dennes tid och rum och att rekonstruktion i full skala är ett ypperligt tillfälle att återuppleva och tolka en dåtid. Studien visar även att känslor som glädje, lycka och nostalgi är det som framträder mest när informanter berättar om personliga minnen som aktiveras genom både platser och föremål.The study examines the physical location of Gamla Linköping where the city of Linköping reconstructs and preserves its collective history through the buildings and the personal memories and stories that today together constitute a living museum. Houses and buildings have been moved from their original locations around the city and some have been given a completely new function in Gamla Linköping. The study also examines personal memories and collective stories from informants in Linköping to answer the questions concerning Gamla Linköping's importance to the city, why the need for reconstruction exists and what importance personal memories have for the study's informants. Conclusions drawn in the study are that Gamla Linköping talks about the everyday life and environment of the individual people in their time and space and that reconstruction on a full scale is an excellent opportunity to relive and interpret a past. The study also shows that emotions such as happiness, joy and nostalgia are what emerges most when informants talks about personal memories that are triggered by both places and objects.
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Mostyn, Santiago. "Notes on the productivity of nostalgia." Thesis, Kungl. Konsthögskolan, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kkh:diva-6.
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Notes on the productivity of nostalgia is a treatise on otherness and memory, framed as entries into the notebook of a no-longer-young man who decides to visit places that have a nostalgic connection to him - places where he grew up, and places where he fell in love -and who is trying to overhaul the notion that you can't look back and move forward at the same time.[I examensarbetet ingår utställningen "Little father, glorious stump":] The exam work consisted of a three-room installation of sculptural objects, activated by a live sound performance, as well as a 3D animation projected unto one wall of the gallery.
Examensarbetet består av en skriftlig del och en gestaltande del. Alternativ titel anger namnet förden gestaltande delen.
The master work includes a written essay and a forming part. The alternative title is the name of the forming part.
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Robertson, Sara. "Nostalgia and wellbeing across the lifespan." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2013. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/370449/.
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In recent years, interest in nostalgia and its many potential benefits has blossomed, yet the nature of nostalgia in older adulthood has remained largely unexplored. This is surprising, given that nostalgia serves many functions which are highly relevant to older adults and which could determine whether they adjust poorly or well to older adulthood. In order to address this shortfall, this thesis reports on research exploring nostalgia and wellbeing across the lifespan. First, I compare the content of nostalgic and ordinary autobiographical memories using multiple coding methods. Results highlight the strong social orientation of nostalgia in older adults (Chapter 2). Second, I examine psychological wellbeing across the lifespan and demonstrate that stability or gains in wellbeing are contingent on nostalgia (Chapter 3). Furthermore, these age-related differences in psychological wellbeing are at least partly driven by a perception of limited time (Chapter 4). Finally, I explore whether there are individual differences in those who stand to benefit most from nostalgia. Results suggest that nostalgia may not meet the affiliative needs of high growth adults as they get older. This is demonstrated across a wide variety of measures, including psychological wellbeing (Chapter 5), subjective wellbeing and health (Chapter 6). Overall, this thesis emphasises the value of taking a lifespan perspective on nostalgia.
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Miranda, Lenir de. "Nostos : a nostalgia de todos nós." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/12130.
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Sob o título de NOSTOS – A NOSTALGIA DE TODOS NÓS, esta dissertação é uma reflexão poética que se desenvolve na dualidade entre literatura e artes plásticas. Estende-se, todo o trabalho, na passagem de uma semântica literária, para um semântica visual, evidenciando-se uma cumplicidade entre palavras e imagens. Assim é manifestada uma visão de mundos, expressados a partir de Ulisses, de James Joyce, precisamente sobre sua Terceira Parte (Nostos), Episódio 17-Ítaca. Projeções visuais, através de pinturas e livros de artista, vêm emanadas do pensamento em torno de Nostos, ou seja, a vontade de regressar e identificar-se com um lugar do próprio Eu, dado pela obra de arte. Nesta reflexão há o descobrir onde se espelhar, como um regresso a si mesmo, possibilitada pela obra que se dispõe também ao olhar do Outro. Há o regressar pelo percurso da obra, intermediada pelo olhar do Outro. Desenvolvendo a conexão fundada pela palavra joyceana e instaurando, a partir dela, um signo visual. O texto, nesta dissertação, refere-se à dialética estabelecida no processo da formação da obra, manifestada na sua poiética.This text, whose title is “Nostos - The Nostalgia we all have”, is a poetic reflexion upon the duality between literature and visual arts. The whole work reflects upon this passage between literary and visual semantics, revealing the intimacy between words and images. A vision of worlds is thus expressed, taking as starting point James Joyce’s “Ullysses”, especially its 3rd part (Nostos), and its 17th episode (Ithaca) Visual projections, through the artist’s paintings and books, are emanations of nostos, ie, the longing for return and identification with the locus of the self, given by the work of art. In this reflection dwells the finding out of a place to replicate, as if through a looking-glass, as if it were a return to the self, made possible through the work which presents itself to the Other´s gaze. There is a return through the itinerary of the work, mediated by the Other’s gaze, building upon the connection established by Joyce’s words and construing, upon it, a visual sign. The text, in this work, refers to the dialectics established in the process of formation of the work, made visible trough its poiesis.
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Ross, Simon David. "Nostalgia in postmodern science fiction film." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B23472741.
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Gates, James A. "Nostalgia and the Tea Party movement." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2018. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/17322/.
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This thesis examines the role of History and Nostalgia in shaping the modern Tea Party movement, which emerged across the United States of America in early 2009. Inspired by the seminal work of Professor Jill Lepore, The Whites of Their Eyes, this thesis attempts to further investigate the Tea Party movement and their unique relationship with the past: from the social movement’s links with other conservative historical organisations such as the John Birch Society, to the Tea Party movement’s adoption and exploitation of the history of the American Revolution as a means of gaining political legitimacy. This thesis contextualises as well as details the historical origins, organisations, and ideologies behind the social movement. In the process of this task, the thesis has employed an experimental methodology which attempts to fuse together the philosophy of History with the discipline of History – an idea that was inspired during the experience of carrying out the thesis research at the time. This thesis highlights: the influence of the Internet over Tea Party movement, the Tea Party movement’s historiography of the American Revolution, as well as the similarities and differences of historical experiences shared by the Tea Party movement and the generation responsible for the American Revolution.
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Acosta, Antonio Dante Rodrigues. "Nostalgia e memória em Andrei Tarkovski." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/JSSS-8Z8QAV.
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The following study is developed considering fragments of the life course of Gorchakov, the foreign character of Andrei Tarkovski's movie Nostalgia (1983). Such fragments allowed me to draw up short journeys adressing time and memory, closely followed by Frances Yates' wording on the Art of Memory, as well as the writings of Tarkovsky himself about the Sculpting in Time. This dissertation is, above anything else, the result of a deep admiration for the film work of this Russian artist, as well as for his poetry about faith in the transformation of the man. This admiration derives a large portion of my rapture in relation to Tarkovsky's images, and in the way these act in my mind as a force of inspiration.O presente texto desenvolve-se a partir de fragmentos do percurso de vida de Gorchakov, o personagem estrangeiro do filme intitulado Nostalgia (1983), de Andrei Tarkovski. Tais fragmentos possibilitaram-me a elaboração de pequenos percursos escritos sobre o tempo e a memória, acompanhados de perto pelos textos de Frances Yates sobre a Arte da Memória, bem como pelos escritos do próprio Tarkovski sobre a arte de Esculpir o Tempo. Esta dissertação é, mais do que tudo, fruto da profunda admiração que cultivo pela obra cinematográfica deste artista russo e sua poética sobre a fé na transformação do homem. Daí provém grande parcela de meu arrebatamento com relação às suas imagens, e no modo como estas agem em meu espírito como força de inspiração.
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Deng, Jinpei. "Pastoral Nostalgia and Digital Media: A Case Study Exploring Nostalgia Communication in Li Ziqi’s Online Short Videos." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-420685.
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The primary goal of this study is to observe how the meaning of nostalgia is negotiated and remediated in Li Ziqi’s short videos, and understand the construction and expression of pastoral images in the video, by examining its social modality of the audiencing site and the compositional and social modalities of the image site through a Critical Visual Approach(CVA). Except for CVA, Remix as a thinking tool helps to frame data selection, mixed methods and theories throughout. To be specific, the aim of this study is to examine Li Ziqi’s communication of nostalgia online via short videos, showcases how the pastoral characteristics are evoked in the videos and the relationship between nostalgia of pastoral life and short videos. Moreover, it is of interest to think about what nostalgia communication on short videos say about society. When it comes to the two sites, firstly, an ethnographic method of thick descriptions is used to study media text and selected comments on the audiencing site. Secondly, on the image site, compositional analysis on selected visual materials is used to examine its compositions and then signs and meanings embedded in them are analyzed through semiotic analysis and interpreted by thick descriptions. As for theories, nostalgia and media, the logic of social acceleration, remediation and new media, and simulacra and simulation are applied to facilitate discussion.
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Engammare, Juliette. "Familles de part et d'autre de l'écran : fiction, expérience et transmission." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA176.
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Ce travail est une confrontation. Une rencontre entre familles réelles et familles fictionnelles par écran interposé, afin de comprendre comment l’expérience fictionnelle interagit avec l’expérience de la vie. À cet effet, nous avons mené une enquête auprès de sept familles du Nord-Pas-de-Calais et avons choisi trois séries significatives en matière de représentations familiales, fortement plébiscitées par toutes les chaînes du groupe M6 et dont les circonstances de diffusion les réunissent à plus d’un titre : La petite maison dans la prairie (NBC, 1974-1984), Malcolm in the middle (FOX, 2000-2006) et Desperate Housewives (ABC, 2004-2012). Les résultats de l’enquête montrent que ces trois séries constituent une ressource permanente curative, qui sert de point de départ à une construction, voire une reconstruction de soi, que la nostalgie apparaît comme un moteur d’action, lequel amène à la composition singulière de situations, de décors de scène, de décoration d’intérieur, de pratiques variées et à la confection d’un patrimoine familial. Pour le dire autrement,l’expérience de la fiction rappelle constamment l’expérience de la vie et provoque, déclenche,de nouvelles expériences que souvent, les familles s’assurent de se transmettre de génération en génération. L’attachement à la fiction est un attachement à la vie personnelle et la chaîne joue un rôle sensible dans ce processusThis work proposes to implement a confrontation between real families and fictional familiesby interposing a screen in between them in order to understand how a fictional experienceinteracts with life experience. We have interviewed seven families from the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France. We have chosen three shows that are integral in familyrepresentation. They enjoy great popularity on the M6 TV group’s various channels andexhibit similar airing strategies: The Little House on the Prairie (NBC, 1974-1984), Malcomin the Middle (FOX, 2000-2006) and Desperate Housewives (ABC, 2004-2012). The ideathat we offer is that these three shows establish a permanent curative resource which is thebase of the individual’s self-construction. We may also go as far as to call it a reconstructionof oneself. Nostalgia seems to inspire action which leads to the construction of situations, setdesign, interior decoration, various practices and the creation of a family heritage. In otherwords: the experience of fiction serves as a constant reminder of the experience of life whichtriggers and inspires new experiences that families often pass down from generation togeneration. The shows in this corpus play a role in the creation of one’s family-relatedidentity and memories. An attachment towards fiction equates to an attachment to personallife. The network’s part in this process is substantial
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Chick, Mei-yee, and 戚美儀. "History and nostalgia: constructing the past through film." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31950711.
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Chick, Mei-yee. "History and nostalgia : constructing the past through film /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1966865X.
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Muttib, Hussein Thakaa. "La quête identitaire dans le théâtre de Yasmina Reza." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009LYO20033/document.
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Le théâtre de Yasmina Reza s’inscrit dans le cadre du théâtre contemporain. La présente étude aborde la problématique de la quête identitaire. Dans cet espace conflictuel, les personnages rezaldiens – écrivains en manque d’inspiration, critiques ou historiens – sont en perte d’identité. Ces protagonistes souffrent de l’angoisse de la mort, de la disparition d’un proche ou de leur vieillissement, vécu comme un naufrage. Ils ne peuvent que subir les circonstances qui leur sont imposées et vivent une vie vouée à la répétition des scénarios du passé. Dans ce théâtre sans action, le drame intérieur transparaît à travers l’absurdité d’une vie remplie d’actes dérisoires et de paroles insignifiantes ou d’un retour vers le passé familial. Seul le langage est le lieu de l’action constituant la clé qui va résoudre le nœud dramatique. Dans cette quête d’unification identitaire, chacun essaie douloureusement, par le récit, d’accepter son passé et ce qu’il est devenu, loin de ce qu’il aurait rêvé d’être. Cette fragilité identitaire se montre un moteur de la création. L’écriture théâtrale de Reza, pleine de contradictions, conduit vers la pacification. C’est dans une écriture du quotidien que l’auteur invente son style et son identité. Une telle quête théâtrale montre la volonté de Reza d’emmener ses personnages vers une quête de sécurité, d’identité et du sens de leur vieYasmina Reza’s theatre is a part of the contemporary theatre. This study approaches the identity’s quest. In this theatre of conflict, the rezaldians ─ writers lacking in inspiration, critics or historians ─ are in loss of identity. These protagonists suffer from fear of death, of living in the memory of close relative or of the fact of getting older, experienced as a shipwrecked. They can only suffer of the imposed circumstances upon them and live a life doomed of a repeat scenarios of the past. In this kind of theatre without action, the inner drama transpires through the absurdity of a life filled with ridiculous acts and insignificant words or remembering family’s history. In this kind of plays, the language is the only action as the key which solves the dramatic plot. In this quest for unification of identity, each one tries painfully, through the story, to accept his past and the fact how he becomes now, far away from what he can imagine himself. This fragility of the identity is thus tending to end up as an engine creation. Reza’s writing, full of contradictions, is a looking for pacification. The author of this play invents her own style and identity by describing the quotidian life of her character. Such quest theatrical shows how Reza wants to make her character doing his quest of security, of his own identity and looking for a meaning in his life
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Poulot, Marie-Laure. "Pour une géographie du cosmopolitisme autour du boulevard Saint-Laurent : mises en récits, nostalgies patrimoniales et constructions territoriales." Thesis, Paris 10, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA100137.
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Cette thèse questionne les mises en récits, les nostalgies patrimoniales et les constructions territoriales afin de comprendre les différentes dimensions du cosmopolitisme autour du boulevard Saint-Laurent à Montréal. L’artère représente à la fois une coupure dans la ville, symbolisant pendant longtemps les « deux solitudes » (MacLennan, 1945) francophone et anglophone, et une couture, un lieu de passage et de brassage qui a été privilégié par les immigrants comme lieu d’installation tout au long du XXe siècle. Cette recherche se fonde sur des enquêtes de terrain, associant observation et entretiens, mais aussi sur l’étude de rapports, plans d’aménagement et récits de fiction. Dans l’ancien corridor de l’immigration, se rencontrent, se confrontent et parfois se superposent trois dimensions du cosmopolitisme : un cosmopolitisme politique et identitaire, des formes de marchandisation et enfin, un cosmopolitisme vécu, du quotidien. Différents niveaux de pouvoir agissent sur le boulevard (arrondissement, ville, gouvernement provincial et fédéral) pour en faire un espace de lecture des politiques de diversité et de patrimonialisation. Le boulevard est également l’objet de stratégies de branding : si les acteurs des quartiers « ethniques » mettent en avant le cosmopolitisme, les promoteurs publics et privés du quartier des Spectacles le laissent de côté. Mais ces quartiers ne sont pas réductibles aux seules stratégies de communication et mise en images : ils sont vécus, utilisés et parcourus par les communautés culturelles concernées et par d’autres habitants. Le boulevard est donc un lieu d’expériences citadines qui construisent une forme de cosmopolitisme du quotidien, qui se décline en lieux, ambiances, temporalités et qui se cristallisent dans certaines figures et lieux-moments particuliers, comme les fêtes ou les visites urbainesThis thesis questions the geography of cosmopolitanism, through the study of narratives, practices and representations around Saint Lawrence boulevard in Montreal. The street represents a divide between the “two solitudes” – the French-speaking and the English-speaking areas -, but also a bond, a passage and melting place, where immigrants settled during the 20th century. This research is based on field studies - combining observation and interviews. It also relies on studies of planning documents, reports and literature. In this former immigration corridor, three aspects of cosmopolitanism are converging, competing and sometimes overlapping: a political and identity-led cosmopolitanism, a consumerist cosmopolitanism, and a day-to-day experienced cosmopolitanism. Several scales of power operate on the boulevard (districts, municipality, provincial and federal government) so that one can read in diversity policies and heritage designations. The boulevard is also a lever for branding strategies: while “ethnic” neighborhoods clearly highlight the assets of cosmopolitanism, public and private real estate developers keep a low profile on that front in the Quartier des Spectacles. At any rate, these neighborhoods are not only about communication and branding: they are also daily experiences, commuting and hustle for cultural communities and many other inhabitants. The boulevard is therefore a space of urban experiences, that gives birth to a form of everyday cosmopolitanism, which is underpinned by venues, atmospheres and time specificities. This notably materializes through key people and special venues in time, such as festivals or walking tours
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Andersson, Jimmy. "Defining Nostalgia and Its Functions: A Review." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för kommunikation och information, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-5230.
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Nostalgia is a psychological phenomenon we all can relate to but have a hard time to define. What characterizes the mental state of feeling nostalgia? What psychological function does it serve? Different published materials in a wide range of fields, from consumption research and sport science to clinical psychology, psychoanalysis and sociology, all have slightly different definition of this mental experience. Some claim it is a psychiatric disease giving melancholic emotions to a memory you would consider a happy one, while others state it enforces positivity in our mood. First in this paper a thorough review of the history of nostalgia is presented, then a look at the body of contemporary nostalgia research to see what it could be constituted of. Finally, we want to dig even deeper to see what is suggested by the literature in terms of triggers and functions. Some say that digitally recorded material like music and videos has a potential nostalgic component, which could trigger a reflection of the past in ways that was difficult before such inventions. Hinting towards that nostalgia as a cultural phenomenon is on a rising scene. Some authors say that odors have the strongest impact on nostalgic reverie due to activating it without too much cognitive appraisal. Cognitive neuropsychology has shed new light on a lot of human psychological phenomena‘s and even though empirical testing have been scarce in this field, it should get a fair scrutiny within this perspective as well and hopefully helping to clarify the definition of the word to ease future investigations, both scientifically speaking and in laymen‘s retro hysteria.Keywords:
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Au, Siu-lung, and 區肇龍. "'Nostalgia' and 'Panic' in Huang Biyun's Fiction." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B40675956.
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Chan, Danny C. 1974. "Nostalgia and the idea of urban ruin." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/30216.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (p. 28).
An archetype for nostalgia withholds moments, suspending time in a state between memory and anticipation. Gravity plays an essential role in creating time in architecture: it gives physicality to the transience, allows time to be experienced with one's senses and imagination. In that sense, time is neither metaphorical and prescriptive, but physical and personal. Using the physical context of Fort Point Channel as the stimulus for intellectual thinking, the thesis project strives to discover how the idea of an urban ruin can inspire new forms of spatial-temporal experience. The physical and spiritual qualities of the Greek temples, in particular the Doric Order, are analyzed in order to understand the fundamentals in architecture such as Absence, Gravity and the Order of space and matter. Through the resurrection of time and memory in architecture, the new archetype allows one to become closer in touch with his senses, thus finding purpose to his own existence.
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Bassett, Aurora Kazi. "Difficult history : saving Yangon from colonial nostalgia." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111371.
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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-67).
Using the form of an essay I discuss the preservation of built heritage from the 'difficult' histories of colonialism and enslavement, linking together the global stories of oppression through colonialism and slavery to the global tourism and pressure for economic growth today. I focus on Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma), which has the world's largest collection of Victorian and Edwardian colonial architecture. Years of active neglect by the military government have preserved these aging structures, but this era is coming to an end amid with often conflicting pressures to modernize and campaigns to actively restore the historic downtown. In this thesis I explore the politics of preservation and the market forces of international tourism that have led to nostalgic restorations of colonial relations for elite travelers.
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Ara?jo, Francisco Magno Silva de. "O Ateneu e a nostalgia na forma." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2011. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/16200.
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The actual study proposes Raul d‟?vila Pomp?ia‟s O Ateneu (1888) among the most significant works in Brazilian Literature panorama, according to the perspective of verbal materiality of the Romanesque genre under a form nostalgia sign that, in its turn, ascends to the archaic origin poetry of fable. Along with large rereading of pertinent bibliography, it is gone here toward narrator Sergio‟s cr?nica de saudades on pursuit of showing it, firstly, as poetic language allegory updated in the novel technique; secondly, as radical metalanguage that still renders problematic several aspects of modern fictional prose
O presente estudo prop?e O Ateneu (1888) de Raul d‟?vila Pomp?ia dentre as obras mais significativas no panorama da Literatura Brasileira, segundo a perspectiva de materialidade verbal do g?nero romanesco sob o signo de uma nostalgia da forma que, por sua vez, remonta ? poesia da origem arcaica da f?bula. A par de ampla releitura da bibliografia pertinente, envereda-se aqui pela cr?nica de saudades do narrador S?rgio em busca de mostr?-la, primeiro, como alegoria da linguagem po?tica atualizada na t?cnica do romance; segundo, como metalinguagem radical que ainda problematiza v?rios aspectos da moderna prosa de fic??o
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Su, John J. "Ethics and nostalgia in the contemporary novel /." Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40102937z.
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Shen, Jiaxi. "Home Video and Nostalgia in Transitional China." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1404.
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This paper is a theoretical and aesthetic exploration of my MFA thesis film- an autobiographical documentary. This documentary was entirely shot in China, with both high-definition footage and Super 8 film; it takes a journey in my hometown to discuss the contemporary housing problem across generations in modern China. By focusing on ordinary family life, the film attempts to reveal the tension and conflicts arising between Chinese people's need for roots and the shifting socioeconomic system. The first part of the paper addresses the highly contrasted filmic textures that establish various temporal dimensions in the film. Taking an autobiographical approach, the first person perspective is employed to connect these times and spaces. The second part of the paper will examine the subjectivity in the film and discuss how the self functions as a storyteller, an outsider and a family member at the same time. The following chapter will visit the physical familiar space. The lens searches for marks and signs left by everyday practices, in order to trace the change of the concept of home in Chinese culture after the invasion of industrialization and consumerism. Such an enormous socioeconomic transformation has eventually given birth to a wave of nostalgia in contemporary China. This nostalgia answers a cultural need that counters the irresistible process of modernization, urbanization and commercialization in the transitional China.
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Bernhard, Emelie. "Nostalgi och retro." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-43652.
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Retro lockar och nostalgi skapas av existentiella och/eller estetiska skäl med omfattande och varierande betydelser för olika aktörer. Människors minnen och sinnen kan knytas an till folkparken Tyrolens dansbana och musikverksamhet. Dansbanan och musiken fungerar som minnesbärare, de är exempel på hur materiellt och immateriellt kulturarv samverkar och genererar upplevelser av nostalgi. Att samla och dokumentera kulturarv är avgörande för nostalgins och retrons betydelser för människor, ett exempel är den mobila museivagnen "Tyrolen på hjul". Samtida individuella och kollektiva berättelser om det nära förflutna liksom begreppen nostalgi och retro kan användas inom arkeologin för att förstå vad det innebär att vara människa.
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Hiort, af Ornäs Alice. "Om jag vore dig så nära : Om upplevelsen av avstånd under emigrationen till Amerika." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34409.
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Ando, Tomoko. "La nostalgie dans l'œuvre d'Albert Camus." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040071.
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Au début des Carnets, exprimant ce qui le pousse à créer, Albert Camus mentionne « la nostalgie d’une pauvreté perdue ». Une nostalgie ambiguë, qui ne signifie pas un simple regret du temps perdu, mais qui se relève du « sentiment bizarre » que le fils porte à sa mère silencieuse. Elle consiste en réalité dans l’aspiration douloureuse à la tendresse, qui est liée intrinsèquement à la misère de l’existence que l’auteur a vécue dans son enfance. Dans le but de raconter son passé, il élabore sa nostalgie comme essence de sa sensibilité. Signe de complexité, une telle captivité comporte de plus le regret et la mauvaise conscience à l’égard du milieu pauvre qu’il a quitté. Quoique paraissant ambiguë, le nom de nostalgie est juste, s’agissant de la quête de l’identité au fond : dans la sensibilité déchirée s’inscrit la recherche inassouvissable d’une véritable origine de l’être. D’où le fait que, dans le contexte existentiel, la notion del’absurde s’établit sur la sensibilité nostalgique : l’homme se trouve déchiré entre sa condition limitée et son aspiration à une vie de plénitude. Il choisit de tenir sa nostalgie déchirante comme le fond de son être, son axe de vie et sa raison de vivre. Pour l’homme absurde, la création littéraire n’est pas une option, mais la volonté de lucidité et de liberté, en vue de « donner aux couleurs le pouvoir d’exprimer le vide ». L’oeuvre figure la dialectique de la présence et de l’absence, ce qu’expriment par moyens divers les romans camusiens. Enfin, le dernier Camus exprime la nostalgie de la patrie en tant que quête consciente de sonorigine, du « soleil enfoui », qui l’attire et le dirige, qu’il connaît depuis toujoursIn the beginning of Carnets, Albert Camus mentions “the nostalgia for a lost poverty” as he expresses what drives him to create. Ambiguous nostalgia, which does not mean a simple regret of lost time, concerns the “strange feeling” that the son carries toward his silent mother. In reality, it consists in the painful aspiration for tenderness, which is intrinsically bound up with the misery that the author has experienced in his childhood. In order to tell his past, he elaborates his nostalgia as the essence of his sensitivity. And as a signof its complexity, such captivity includes a regret and a sense of guilt towards the poor environment which he left behind. Despite its ambiguity, the name of nostalgia is just because it concerns the quest for identity: in the torn sensitivity, there is an insatiable quest for a true source of being. Therefore, in the existential context, the concept of the absurd is established upon the nostalgic sensibility: human beings are torn between their limited condition and their desire for a full life. They choose to hold their torn nostalgia astheir existential foundation, their life axis and their raison d’être. For the absurd man, literary creation is not an option. It embodies the will of lucidity and liberty, in order to “give power of expressing vacuum to colors”. The dialectic of presence and absence is represented in the novels of Camus in various ways. In his later years, Camus expresses nostalgia for the homeland, consciously searching for his origin; the quest after his “buried sun”. He has always known this “buried sun” which had been attracting him as his guidance
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Meyer, Katherine Conner. "Sport nostalgia: An examination of familiarity and intended behavior." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275393944.
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Nourmohammadi, Shima. "Nostalgia in George Orwell's Coming Up For Air." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-74261.
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Modernity has changed the world and subsequently has caused emotional wounds and a sense of nostalgia for those pleasant times and places left in the past. In fact, nostalgia and modernity were two principle notions that people face in the early 20th century. This study calls on the notion of nostalgia defined by J. Wilson, which suggests that hard life situations and modernity enforcing unwanted changes in life, bring a feeling for the past like missing something left behind. Taking Wilson’s definition as a point of departure, this study analyses the protagonist's nostalgic feeling and nostalgia in the novel Coming Up For Air written by George Orwell. It also compares Coming Up For Air with two other Orwell’s writings which demonstrate that a grief for legacy of the past is recurrent in his writings. In addition, this study argues that nostalgia is not only a sentimental motion or mourning for the lost past but it also creates a pleasant space for the protagonist to recover from hardships caused by the modern life in the early 20th century. This study investigates the protagonist’s returning to his childhood town to make his dream of home real. The notion of Place Attachment by Ben Dowler is applied in this study, which demonstrates that the hometown means happiness and a safe place for the protagonist because he was in connection with a sense of happiness and joy in that place. In addition, Abraham Maslow’s theory about human basic needs, which demonstrates that the protagonist looks for a safe place because of his aroused basic need of being secure in the war times, is addressed. Furthermore, this study applies Sigmund Freud’s theory of Mental Structure. The theory is about the three layers of mind from instinct to mature and demonstrates that three different layers of the protagonist’s mind lead him to reply differently to his need of returning home. The main claim of this theory is that although the protagonist has no control over his aroused basic need for security, the mature one makes him more connected to the real world and helps him to cope with his nostalgia.