Retro quality and historical consciousness in contemporary European television

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dc.contributor.authorBayman, Louis
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-03T12:30:43Z
dc.date.available2018-05-03T12:30:43Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThis article investigates the trend represented by the recent TV series This Is England 86 (2010), Deutschland 83 (2015) and 1992 (2015). It analyses retro in the series as enabling an exhilarating experience of the music, fashions and lifestyles of the past while claiming to offer a serious social history. The article thus takes issue with theories of retro that view it as ahistorical (for example Guffey), to demonstrate how retro in these series enables a particular dramatic conception of the dynamics of national history, whether in post-imperial decline (This Is England), a westalgie for the grip of geopolitical conflict (Deutschland 83) or the cyclical progression of trasformismo (1992). The article discusses the series’ common visions of the past as characterised by a pleasing youthful naivety, opposed to an implied present of cynical superior knowledge. I argue that these series embody retro’s distinct ability to combine irony and fetishism in its recreation of the past, as befits an age in which historical consciousness is increasingly referred to the intimate sphere of the individual self and its uncertain relation to posterityen
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationBayman, L. (2016) 'Retro quality and historical consciousness in contemporary European television', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 12, pp. 78-96. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.12.05en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.12.05
dc.identifier.endpage96
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued12
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphaville
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage78
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/6015
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Cork
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue12/12_5Article_Bayman.pdf
dc.rights© 2016, The Author(s)en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectTV seriesen
dc.subjectNational historyen
dc.subjectSocial historyen
dc.subjectThis Is England 86en
dc.subjectDeutschland 83en
dc.subject1992en
dc.subjectRetroen
dc.subjectIronyen
dc.subjectFetishismen
dc.subjectPosterityen
dc.titleRetro quality and historical consciousness in contemporary European televisionen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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