MrT wrote:
"Perhaps we should just banish nostalgia, of which the wink
is a giveaway sign. What good is nostalgia? To have the
entire past ahead of one? If you will forgive the harsh
pronouncement, I think nostalgia is a sign of decadence. I
think history backs me up in this harsh pronouncement."
It's certainly a sign of genre exhaustion, at least according
to John Cawelti, who wrote a very interesting essay about the
stages of a genre. It was anthologized in a film theory
anthology I read as an undergrad, I think the one edited by
Mast & Cohen, not the one by Nichols.
Ah, this all makes me nostalgic for the pre-nostalgic
stage.
Mark
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