{"product_id":"the-reflective-age-nostalgia-at-the-end-of-history-paperback-softback-9781978843783","title":"The Reflective Age; Nostalgia at the End of History (Paperback \/ softback) 9781978843783","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Reflective Age\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNostalgia at the End of History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eZachary Griffith (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978843783\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 9 December 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e188 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.286 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"While peering beneath the surfaces of contemporary film, television, and literature, Griffith makes a compelling argument that mediated nostalgia in the twenty-first century is a hall of mirrors endlessly reflecting back upon itself. Covering politics, history, and popular culture, \u003ci\u003eThe Reflective Age\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable addition to the multidisciplinary field of nostalgia studies.\" - Adam Ochonicky, author of \u003ci\u003eThe American Midwest in Film and Literature: Nostalgia, Violence, and Regionalism\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eThe Reflective Age\u003c\/i\u003e, Griffith discerns kinship between such disparate works as \u003ci\u003eReady Player One\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStranger Things\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHillbilly Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e, all of which manage immediate economic discontents through retro fantasy. While contesting the cultural logic of nostalgia, his lucid, propulsive prose reaches toward the not yet lived.\" - Christopher Carter, author of The Rhetoric of Dystopia: Prophecies and Provocations in the Anthropocene\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAt the end of history, nothing ever really ends. Though characterized, on one hand, by sociopolitical and economic stasis, stagnation, and decline, twenty-first century American culture has also been marked by the constant ebb and flow of preexisting artifacts and styles, so that when one fades out of fashion it is always replaced by another reiteration. Change, on the cultural level, has accelerated at an unprecedented rate, and old things are constantly returning anew. The present, in other words, promotes the feeling that nothing is changing and, simultaneously, everything is. In the midst of this paradoxical sense of constant flux and grinding stagnation, underwritten by the notion that there is no alternative to the malaise of the present, the nostalgic past emerges as the only viable refuge. \u003ci\u003eThe Reflective Age\u003c\/i\u003e investigates how nostalgic American media of the 2010s and early 2020s reflects––and contributes to––these conditions, showing how the films, TV shows, music, and literature of the period illustrate a radical shift in both the role that nostalgia plays in the American cultural and political landscape as well as in nostalgia itself.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1 Ready Player One, Nostalgia, and Recognition 22\u003cbr\u003e 2 Stranger Things,\u003cbr\u003e Nostalgia, and Aesthetics 56\u003cbr\u003e 3 Twin Peaks: The Return, Nostalgia, and Fantasies of\u003cbr\u003e Repetition 80\u003cbr\u003e 4 Hillbilly Elegy, Nostalgia, and Right-Wing\u003cbr\u003e Melodrama 104\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Nostalgia After\u003cbr\u003e the End of History? 147\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 153\u003cbr\u003e Notes 155\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 163\u003cbr\u003e Index 000\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52640492060952,"sku":"9781978843783","price":22.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-reflective-age-nostalgia-at-the-end-of-history-paperback-softback-9781978843783","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}