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Teens and Nostalgia

Teens and Nostalgia. LESSON 7 FMS 394. Guiding questions. What were some defining characteristics of the early 1970s and how did the cultural climate differ from that of the late 1960s? Nostalgia is a fairly commonplace word, but what do we mean when we discuss it in media studies?

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Teens and Nostalgia

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  1. Teens and Nostalgia LESSON 7 FMS 394

  2. Guiding questions • What were some defining characteristics of the early 1970s and how did the cultural climate differ from that of the late 1960s? • Nostalgia is a fairly commonplace word, but what do we mean when we discuss it in media studies? • What is the nostalgic teen film and how does it operate ideologically? • How does American Graffiti exemplify the nostalgic teen film? How did it respond and contribute to cultural discourses at the time? What are its legacies?

  3. The 1970s: A Time of Tumult • Crisis in Vietnam • My Lai and the Tet Offensive • Assassinations • Martin Luther King, Jr. • Robert F. Kennedy • Kent State Shootings • Watergate Scandal

  4. What do we mean by “nostalgia”? • A longing for the past • Personal nostalgia • Commodified Nostalgia • Styles, goods, cultural artifacts • Not necessarily personal • Intensified in 20th (and 21st) century • Nostalgia’s Ideological Implications • Reification • Romanticization • Refusal

  5. The Nostalgic Teen Film • Generational tension and youthful rebellion filtered through an adult perspective. • Sympathetic, but not indigenous voice • Tension between excess and containment

  6. The Original Nostalgic Teen Film? • American Graffiti (1973) • Directed by George Lucas and produced by Francis Ford Coppola • Personal andcommodifiednostalgia • Narrative structure • Documentary style • Soundtrack • Wider significance of the film?

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