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Tag Archives: Critical Nostalgia

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Retuning Nostalgia: Anti-Black Racism and the Cultural Politics of Country Music

Nicholas Miller returns with an essay on whiteness, country music nostalgia, and charting a new course to re-imagine the past and the future.

1 June 2021 in Music, Race.

Blue Becomings: Revisiting Excalibur #4

Dr. Anna Peppard re-examines a favorite scene from Excalibur #4 a decade after first reading it to consider how its meanings may have changed for her.

11 May 2021 in Critical Nostalgia, Guest Post, Marvel Comics.

“But We’re Out of Time”: Queer(ed) Nostalgia and The WB’s Birds of Prey

Thinking through how personal narratives also become mediated narratives that enable queer world-building through the example of The WB’s Birds of Prey.

24 March 2020 in DC Comics, Queer, TV.

Mo’ Meta News: How Collecting Shapes The Middle Spaces

As the year ends, let’s look to 2018 and beyond by considering how comic book collecting and critical nostalgia shape The Middle Spaces blog.

26 December 2017 in Comics, Meta.

The (re)Collection Agency #4: A Conversation with Brian Cremins

The latest in our conversations with comics scholars: this time Dr. Brian Cremins talks comics and nostalgia as pitfall and strategy in (re)constructing personal and historical narratives.

6 June 2017 in Comic Studies, Interview.
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