Here are a few possibilities: Author: Petro, Patrice, 1957- Title: Aftershocks of the new : feminism and film history / Patrice Petro. Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2002. Contents-Note: Film feminism and nostalgia for the seventies. Author: Eliasoph, Nina. Title: Avoiding politics : how Americans produce apathy in everyday life / Nina Eliasoph. Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1998. Contents-Note: Humour, nostalgia and commercial culture in the postmodern public sphere Title: Classical Hollywood narrative : the paradigm wars / edited by Jane Gaines. Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 1992. Contents-Note: Jane Gaines -- Nostalgia for the present Title: The future of nostalgia / Svetlana Boym. Publisher: New York : Basic Books, c2001. Title: The Limits of theory / edited, with an introduction, by Thomas M. Kavanagh. Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1989. Contents-Note: Roy Roussel -- Nostalgia and critical theory Title: Theories of modernity and postmodernity / edited by Bryan S. Turner. Publisher: London ; Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1990. Contents-Note: Norman K. Denzin -- After nostalgia? : wilful nostalgia and the phases of globalization Fredric Jameson would seem to be a useful starting place in general. There are a number of more isolated studies of nostalgia in cultural studies, depending on how much context you want. Also, see individual studies of Allen and his films. Don Larsson -------------------------------------------- "Only connect." --EM Forster Donald F. Larsson English Department Armstrong Hall 230 Minnesota State University Mankato, MN [log in to unmask] Phone: 507-389-5501 -----Original Message----- From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Britta Feyerabend Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 2:35 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Screen-L/postmodern nostalgia and film?! Hello, I am fairly new to this list, but am already impressed on what a plethora of collected wisdom the list has to offer to some of the most unlikely questions. So I thought I'd try to test your collective brains also: can you name secondary sources as to the uses of nostalgia in film? More closely, I am writing an American Studies dissertation on Woody Allen and postmodern nostalgia and, as of yet, I am lacking appropiate secondary materials (apart from Linda Hutcheon and Phil Powrie) which discuss nostalgia AND film. Often, sources on nostalgia are focussed on one very limited subject (such as early nineteenth century French film) and are hard to use in a study on more contemporary New York City materials. As I am not a film scholar, I seem somewhat out of ideas of where I could find such materials. Any ideas? I'd be very grateful... Greetings from Germany! Britta ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html