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Thursday, January 10 2013

Movie Time Travel and the New Nostalgia

By Molly Brown

The new nostalgia signals the ultimate rejection of millennial anxiety, postmodernism, irony and the future. It longs for a post-industrial, green world. Of course, that suggests a vague and painful longing for something that never was.

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