This re-release looks less like nostalgia and more like surrender: a bid to escape the multiverse mess and make things coherent again.
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The market for retro entertainment has never been bigger. But certain companies may be in danger of overdoing it.
Based on Ellis’ 2023 book of the same name, new TV series The Shards follows elite Los Angeles teenagers as their world falls apart.
A Carnegie Mellon University marketing researcher explains why the love of a retro Pizza Hut has more to do with the relationships attached to it than pizza.
The ‘Mother Road’ has long symbolized freedom and reinvention. But its history reveals a more complicated story shaped by migration, segregation and the highways that eventually circumvented it.
Pokémon cards emerged from Japan’s love affair with collectables – but creator Satoshi Tajiri had a vision for global conquest.
The original indie sleaze moment emerged in the early-mid 2000s, connecting with music, fashion, nightlife and online culture.
A review of nearly 100 years of high school yearbooks from Salinas High School in California showcases a nostalgic, not always accurate, version of high school.
Experts explain why some retro games feel magical again while others feel outdated.
A beautifully written book that shows why nostalgia is not to be trusted.
I worked at RuneScape from 2008 until 2014, and the questions that were on my team’s minds at the time are still relevant now
Music is deeply woven into our sense of self and place, becoming, in effect, an emotional map of a person’s life.
From temples and ashes to cars and AI, humans are populating space with beloved items.
Those songs act as a musical key to a neurological time capsule that transports us back to the intense emotions of our adolescent brain – a time of many firsts.
Populist, right-wing governments often target universities as enemies of the state. The Trump administration is watching − and learning.
By sentimentalising the summer of 1976, we strip away its lessons.
Once thought to be an unhealthy experience, researchers now know that feelings of nostalgia can promote greater social connectedness and a deeper sense of meaning and purpose.
Pulp were not like their contemporaries in romanticising the 60s, but with their new album More, might they be guilty of doing the same to the 90s?
Playing on a sort of fabricated nostalgia for the 80s, this film presents a version of the period that lacks any real insight or depth.
Global economic and political uncertainty, nostalgia and the ongoing shaming of assertive women is fuelling a rise of the ‘tradwife’ movement.
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