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

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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

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