Nostalgia In The Theory Of Mass Culture

As a cultural phenomen,"nostalgia"has its footprint in psychology sociologymedicine philosophy and other fields. The mass culture of nostalgia as an emotionalaesthetic experience, constantly pointing past the beautiful narrative content, aredefined by a retro look back to the past new attitude cultural and historical value ofemotions.In modern society,"nostalgia" has been increased from a psychologicalphenomenon as a cultural phenomenon. It is restricted to a particular moment of thepast things and miss the characters no longer, but transformed into a modern basicsurvival emotions. In modern society, a wide range of cultural nostalgia functionscanalso form a critique of reality,and it can bring emotional comfort to the individual andpromote identity.Nostalgia became a complex contemporary mass for this reason. Butwhen nostalgia as business culture after the capture of popular culture, nostalgia isbound to follow the grain of popular culture and characteristics change, showing newfeatures.Thesis is divided into four sections:Introduction: The main origin of the study, results of previous studies, the subjectof the research methods and innovations are analyzed, and explaine the "nostalgia","mass culture" and other core concepts.Chapter1:Analyze the causes of "nostalgia" theme in mass culture. Moderntransformation of social forms, commercial and cultural nature of the pursuit of profitand the birth of modern media, constitutes a nostalgia in popular culture flourished thethree main reasons. These three forces from different angles nostalgia in mass culturehas played a catalytic role in the formation.Chapte2:Contemporary mass culture nostalgia of the four themes andphenomena are revealed and expounded. These four topics specific performanceagainst red classic prosperous dynasty original culture and create nostalgia of youthand so on. These nostalgic theme corresponding to different body and emotional pointof nostalgia, but also cut into the different levels of social critique on the currentbeing.Chapter3: The main analysis of popular culture nostalgia characteristics. Popularculture nostalgia show focusing on the external form, emotional narrative tends to weaken the historical truth, the pursuit of a global vision and other aspects ofcharacteristics, it is these characteristics determine the nostalgia with this part ofpopular culture too often the pursuit of sensory stimulation the pursuit of emotionalmeeting point, thus the lack of critical depth.Chapter4:Social and cultural functions of contemporary mass culture nostalgiawere revealed dialectically. Although mass culture can also play the true function ofnostalgia,these functions in business and technology constraints are faced with thepossibility of alienation. This is mainly for the critical potential weakening of thedesire of emotional comfort function, aesthetic freedom materialized in three aspects.Dialectical Complex on mass culture nostalgia value of the judgment.In the paper, Unfolded products of mass culture nostalgia as the main line, toanalyze the products of mass culture for decades people show up feelings of nostalgiaspecial spiritual journey. Nostalgia involved in this paper refers to the popular culturemanifested in a retro return new tendencies. Redrawn last impulse is always real, andwith the social transformation and psychological factors such as population changesconstantly fluctuating hidden when. Articles in the search of popular culture, whileexpression of nostalgia for the popular culture manifested in common to make adetailed nuanced interpretation, trying to restore the product characteristics at the sametime, pointed out that cultural nostalgia in popular culture and the efforts made bytheir defects.