Abstract:This article compares the ways in which French and British newspaper discourse has approached nostalgia-as an emotion, social experience and cultural value-in coverage of the 1980s popular music tours RFM Party 80 and Here and Now (2001-2011). Similarities in French and British approaches include an emphasis on joy, the festive, an imagined return to youth, unquestioning nostalgia, social cohesion as well as stereotypical views of 1980s popular music and fashion as kitsch. The study also reveals clear differen… Show more
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