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for Cultural Research</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Western Sydney</st1:PlaceName></span></font></st1:place><font
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face="Arial Rounded MT Bold"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"'>presents</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
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font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Professor Andrew Higson (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">University of York</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>)</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Date: </span></font></b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Thursday, February 19</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Time: </span></font></b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>2:00pm - 4:00pm</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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bold'>Venue:</span></font></b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>
The Gallery, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Female</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Orphan</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Parramatta</st1:place></st1:City>
Campus</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:center'><font
size=3 color=purple face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:purple'>(</span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/parramatta"><font
color=purple><span style='color:purple'>view map and directions</span></font></a><font
color=purple><span style='color:purple'>)</span></font></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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auto;text-align:center'><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Afternoon tea and cakes will be provided</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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bold'>RSVP: </span></font></b><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Jacqui Kingi</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> - 9685 9600 or <a
href="mailto:j.kingi@uws.edu.au"><font color=purple><span style='color:purple'>j.kingi@uws.edu.au</span></font></a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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bold'>Apologies: </span></font></b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:
Arial'>Cameron McAuliffe - <font color=red><span style='color:red'><a
href="mailto:c.mcauliffe@uws.edu.au"><font color=purple><span style='color:
purple'>c.mcauliffe@uws.edu.au</span></font></a></span></font><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'> </span></b></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><img border=0 width=93 height=92 id="_x0000_i1026"
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:center'><b><font
size=4 color=purple face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Century Gothic";color:purple;font-weight:bold'>Nostalgia isn't
what it use to be: heritage films, wistfulness and contemporary culture<br>
</span></font></b><font size=4 color=purple face="Century Gothic"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";color:purple'>Professor
Andrew Higson</span></font><font size=4 color="#7b6d61" face="Century Gothic"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";color:#7B6D61'> </span></font><b><font
size=4 color="#0066cc" face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Century Gothic";color:#0066CC;font-weight:bold'><br>
</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:18.75pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><font
size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>‘Ah,
those were the days…’: this is the wistfulness of modern, temporal
nostalgia, the sense of loss, of unattainability. Conduct a search for
‘nostalgia’ on the internet and a plethora of nostalgia sites
appears, dedicated to movie posters and film memorabilia; popular music,
television and radio; motor cars; books; musical instruments; ships; sweets;
cigarette cards; antique fireplaces, bathroom fittings and brass door furniture
– and even the history of computing and the internet. Nothing seems to be
unattainable here. Now, the prevailing sentiment is ‘Ah, those were the
days... And here they are again right now.’ This is post-modern, a-temporal
nostalgia, where the wistful experience of loss is replaced by a
collector’s delight in recovery, a consumer’s delight in possessing
a past that is no longer irrecoverable.<font color=navy><span style='color:
navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>This
paper works its way through a history of nostalgia, in particular exploring the
conceptual distinction between modern and post-modern nostalgias, contrasting
dictionary definitions and critical accounts with the ways in which nostalgia
websites work. While the paper draws on the work of Jameson, Boym and others,
it also argues for the need to move beyond cultural critique to analyse the
popular experience of nostalgia. <font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>The
second half of the paper maps these concerns on to the experience of English
heritage films, from the Thatcherite 1980s to the present, and in particular a
film from 2004, Ladies in Lavender. It explores how the experience of the past
(in this case, an outpost of rural <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">England</st1:place></st1:country-region> in the 1930s) is
reconstructed in the film. But it also explores the extent to which viewers
perceive the film in terms of nostalgia, and if so, whether this is a positive
or negative experience. Finally, it notes the way in which the film and its
reception embody both modern and post-modern nostalgias. The paper is thus an
attempt to marry together conceptual, formal analysis and the analysis of reception,
and to place the two in the context of a particular cultural history.<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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inter-ideograph'><b><font size=2 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow";font-weight:bold'>Professor Andrew Higson</span></font></b><font
size=2 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
has recently been appointed to the Greg Dyke Chair in Film and Television at <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">York</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
after a successful career at the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">East Anglia</st1:PlaceName> where he was inaugural
Head of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Film</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> and Television
Studies. Running through much of Andrew’s work is a concern for questions
of national cinema. He is well known for his extensive publications on English
cinema, including the much quoted books <i><span style='font-style:italic'>English
Heritage, English Cinema: Costume Drama since 1980</span></i> and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Waving the Flag: Constructing a National Cinema in
Britain</span></i>. He has edited three general surveys of British Cinema
history and his co-edited book (with Richard Maltby), <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>‘Film Europe’ and ‘Film
America’: Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange, 1920-1939</span></i>
was awarded the Prix Jean Mitry for cinema history in 2000 by the British Film
Institute.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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