The Return of the 90s
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-5130-8 (ISBN)
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The 1990s were a cultural watershed, marking a turning point in popular music, television, cinema, literature and fashion. Nestled between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 9/11 attacks, the decade witnessed the 'end of history' and the birth of the internet, the consolidation of neoliberalism, and a political urgency embodied by the anti-globalisation movement. Now in the rearview mirror, this pivotal decade appears as a time to be reckoned with, its history yet to be written, and we have only begun to come to terms with its lasting significance.
This anthology dives into the contemporary fascination with the '90s. Plotting a playful course between sociology and cultural studies on the one hand, and giddy nostalgia on the other, the book charts decisive developments of the decade to fully apprehend its resonances today.
Covering everything from 'girl power,' Star Trek and hip-hop, to queer cinema, anarchist counterculture and the erotic thriller, The Return of the '90s excavates key moments in '90s culture and uncovers its multiple reckonings in the present.
Madeline Lane-McKinley is a writer, editor, and cultural critic based in Portland, Oregon. Her books include Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times, Solidarity with Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy, and Fag/Hag. She is also an editor for Blind Field: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry, a contributor to the Museum of Capitalism, and the co-host of Genre Reveal Party, a film podcast with comedian Dave Maher. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, The New Inquiry, Protean Magazine, and elsewhere. Sean O'Brien is a writer and educator based in Canada and the United Kingdom. He is lecturer in the department of English at the University of Bristol. His research has appeared in Cultural Critique, Discourse, Polygraph, Science Fiction Studies, Crossings, and the Bloomsbury Companion to Marx. Annie McClanahan is an Associate Professor of English at University of California, Irvine. She writes about US popular culture, political economy, and contemporary capitalism and is the author of Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work.
Introduction by Madeline Lane-McKinley and Sean O’Brien
I: Excavations
1. Mobster Politics by Fernando Esquivel-Suarez
2. Girl Power by Isabel Bartholomew
3. The Moment of New Queer Cinema by Philip Longo and Octavio R. González
II: The Post-‘60s
4. 'It’s not linear!' by Shama Rangwala
5. The Good Life 2.0 by Sean O’Brien
6. High School TV and the New Class by Sam H Samore
III: Foreclosures
7. On Waste and Limitlessness by Jacob Miller
8. 'welcome to fucktown' by Sam Weselowski
IV: The Long '90s
9. The Single Girl and the Diversity Friend by Anna Zalokosta
10. Cultural Jetlah by Alya Ansari
11. 'The Return of the Erotic Thriller' by Madeline Lane-McKinley
V: Reckonings
12. Revenge of the 'Super Predators' by Austin McCoy
13. Black Bloc Epoch by Vienna
14. Siren Song by Eva Graham
Afterword by Annie McClanahan
Acknowledgments
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.6.2026 |
|---|---|
| Vorwort | Annie McClanahan |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7453-5130-1 / 0745351301 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7453-5130-8 / 9780745351308 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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