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The Nostalgia Factory: Memory, Time and Ageing By Draaisma Douwe. Yale University Press. 2013. US$25.00 (hb). 176 pp. ISBN:9780300182866
Nostalgia is often portrayed as a rather cosy emotion, for example the Ostalgie for the former East Germany portrayed in films such as Wolfgang Becker’s 2003 Good Bye Lenin! or the ‘nostalgia shop’ (‘Out of the Past’) described in Woody Allen’s 2011 Midnight in Paris: ‘What was prosaic and even vulgar to one generation had been transmuted by the mere passing of years to a status at...