Thursday, August 19, 2010

Nostalgia and irony

Although we've been focusing on nostalgia in cinema, advertising is another key media format that makes use of nostalgic depictions of the past. It's also one place where we often see nostalgia tempered by a sense of irony, as discussed by Paul Grainge (2003). This ad for L & P is a fine example of ironic nostalgia...

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