Young People, Media, and Nostalgia

This book explores how Latin American young people engage with nostalgic representations of the 1970s and 1980s through contemporary media.

Rodrigo Muñoz-González is lecturer at the School of Communication of the University of Costa Rica. He holds a PhD in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

1. Back in Time 2. From Memory to Nostalgia 3. Making Sense of Nostalgia 4. Imagining the Past: Idealisations and Ambivalences 5. Per Aspera Ad Adstra 6. Charming Pasts and Impossible Futures 7. Nostalgia as Structure of Feeling 8. Epilogue: A Meditation on Homecomings Appendix: Research Design