Word: nostalgia
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...conveys a subdued mood that seems appropriate for the temper of the times. Several other commercials, especially those with a satiric bent, were scrapped in the wake of the attack on America... the Spears spot has already clicked with test audiences and ties in with the current wave of nostalgia...
...melancholy makes sense when thinking of the perfectly fit, perfectly coiffed, smiling twenty-year-old Britney from the Pepsi commercial as an expression of nostalgia. Every generation experiences its nostalgia through popular culture: It is the shared text of every time, especially since we feel nostalgia for our youths, when we were more cognizant of Saturday morning TV and number one singles than of politics, world events, and “high” culture...
...mundane that runs through the show. The documentary’s subject matter and camera work are raw: the video twirls and dizzies the viewer, providing a physical sensation of spontaneity, while Davey delivers a 50-minute monologue about her psychoanalysis sessions, the art of photography and reading, and nostalgia. The camera moves between subjects as quickly as the human eye. The previously-mentioned “In the Near Future” by Sharon Hayes consists of a series of projected images. Hayes stands in various locations in New York City that have been home to political and civil...
...Barack Obama, it opined, has the “vision required not only to be president, but to fundamentally alter the way our broken political system functions” and a singular “desire to see dramatic change in the political system.” Brimming with nostalgia for the 1970s, those halcyon years for campus radicals, The Crimson can only view the political landscape through rose-colored glasses...
...like a Polaroid picture” because of your carpal-tunnel from “Guitar Hero.” The magic is gone—at least for our generation.We shouldn’t stay true to the real thing, in the arts and otherwise, simply because of nostalgia, but because there is something intrinsically and objectively important in experiencing something in its original form. Actually playing the guitar involves much more practice and skill than “Guitar Hero,” and it allows for artistic imagination and creativity. Any art made by hand and seen...