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| Vicky McClure as Lol in This Is England 86 (Shane Meadows et al, 2009) as discussed by Louis Bayman in his article "Retro Quality and Historical Consciousness in Contemporary European Television" |
to the presence of archaisms and anachronisms in the contemporary mediascape and contributes to the current interdisciplinary debates around the nostalgia phenomena. Over the past decade, the digitalisation of culture has revolutionised the way we experience and consume the arts and the mass media, deeply affecting how these are perceived in their materiality. The tangibility of cultural objects, now caught in a constant process of remediation, has slightly waned: books, photographs, films, comic books, music, maps etc. are increasingly present in our life in their digital form. At the same time, the digital disruption of media industries has contributed to the emergence of a postmodern “nostalgia for the analogue” with the rapid increase of faux-vintage and retro phenomena in different aspects of media culture. [Baschiera and Caoduro]
Articles
Reports
- The New Old: Archaisms and Anachronisms across Media Editorial by Stefano Baschiera, Queen’s University Belfast, and Elena Caoduro, University of Bedfordshire (Issue Editors)
- 01 Media Hysteresis: Persistence Through Change by Philippe Theophanidis, York University, and Ghislain Thibault, Université de Montréal
- 02 Performing History/ies with Obsolete Media: The Example of a South African Photo-Film by Marietta Kesting, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, and Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
- 03 Analogue Video in the Age of Retrospectacle: Aesthetics, Technology, Subculture by Jonathan Rozenkrantz, Stockholm University
- 04 The Wonder Years: Nostalgia, Memory and Pastness in Television Credits by Kathleen Williams, University of Tasmania
- 05 Retro Quality and Historical Consciousness in Contemporary European Television by Louis Bayman, University of Southampton
- Darren Aronofsky’s Films and the Fragility of Hope, by Jadranka Skorin-Kapov Reviewer: Logan Davis, National University
- Psychoanalytic Film Theory and The Rules of the Game, by Todd McGowan Reviewer: James Driscoll, DePaul University
- Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media, by Adam Lowenstein Reviewer: Zsolt Gyenge, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest
- Cinematic Ghosts: Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era, edited by Murray Leeder Reviewer: Anton Karl Kozlovic, Flinders University and Deakin University
- Cinematic Terror: A Global History of Terrorism on Film, by Tony Shaw Reviewer: Elena Caoduro, University of Bedfordshire
Book Reviews Editor: Loretta Goff
Reports
- Screening Rights Film Festival Birmingham, UK, 15–18 September 2016 Reporters: Will Amott, University of Birmingham, and Pablo Alvarez, University of Birmingham
- Live Cinema Conference King’s College London, 27 May 2016 Reporters: Sarah Atkinson, King’s College London, and Helen W. Kennedy, University of Brighton
- Scalarama UK, 1–30 September 2016 Reporter: Maria A. Velez-Serna, University of Stirling
Reports Editor: Caroline Schroeter
