I wanted to pass along the news that Matthew Leggatt's collection, Was It Yesterday? Nostalgia in Contemporary Film and Television, is now available from SUNY Press.
In the book, I contribute a chapter called, "Clearing Up the Haze: Toward a Definition of the 'Nostalgia Film' Genre." which attempts to outline some of the textual features of looking at nostalgia as a media genre. This is a prequel of sorts to Flickers of Film: Nostalgia in the Time of Digital Cinema (Rutgers, 2015). After finishing the latter book, I realized that I was guilty of the same oversight many scholars before me had committed--using the common term "nostalgia film" without fully defining what that meant. This chapter is an attempt to offer a more thorough delineation of what the concept might entail, while also rethinking some of the term's associations with white male identity and its value to the industry (the latter of which is why I say it's a prequel in a way to Flickers, ending where the original book begins--by questioning whether there is reflective value in Hollywood's cinematic mediation of nostalgia).
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