Nostalgia and Paranoia in Recent American Popular Culture
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Nostalgia and Paranoia in Recent American Popular Culture
By (Author) Owen Cantrell
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Academic
5th February 2026
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Nostalgia: general
Cultural and media studies
Physical Properties
Hardback
256
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Description
In this book, Owen Cantrell interprets American popular culture of the past four decades through the lens of paranoia and nostalgia - twin structures of feeling. Cantrell argues that these culturally-pervasive emotions stem from the United States' fraught political relationship to history during this period as a result of the backlash to the Second Reconstruction (1980-2008) and the Third Reconstruction (2008-present).
Author Bio
Owen Cantrell is Assistant Professor of English at Georgia State University.
