tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post1180460699799127935..comments2024-03-28T16:39:46.847-04:00Comments on Tellers of Weird Tales: A Survey of Monsters-Part SixteenTerence E. Hanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08268641371264950572noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post-88446097880314061862020-04-27T12:19:18.049-04:002020-04-27T12:19:18.049-04:00Hi, Bob (drink),
Thanks for a firsthand account o...Hi, Bob (drink),<br /><br />Thanks for a firsthand account of the nostalgia craze of the 1960s and 70s. In your brief comment, you have brought up a lot of aspects of nostalgia, the times, and the craze. I look forward to reading more of what you have written. Please let us know once your book is published.<br /><br />THTerence E. Hanleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08268641371264950572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post-3896729466130784852019-05-16T14:12:06.636-04:002019-05-16T14:12:06.636-04:00I grew up during the Nostalgia Craze of the 60s an...I grew up during the Nostalgia Craze of the 60s and 70s. It changed my life. So much of the material I grew up with was created in my parents (or grandparents!) generation. But I loved it all …. And realized that, on some level, it was alien to my time. <br /><br />For the most part, “Nostalgia” represented to me a better world than the fallen one into which I was born. It was a place, a philosophy, a mental landscape; a reflection of another, better time irrevocably vanished.<br /><br />Nostalgia was such a potent cultural force because it was a sentiment that immediately followed the momentous cultural upheavals of the Sixties. The schism was so great and so dramatic, that everyone felt as if they were in “new times.” One would have to be asleep not to notice; even as a child, I was aware that the culture had taken a dramatic turn, and it was not for the better.<br /><br />I got that Buck Rogers book when I was 11. I have been obsessively buying additional copies over the years -- why, I don't know. Perhaps some instinct at preservation.<br /><br />I have an upcoming book about science-fiction, fantasy and horror films based on other media, and in the chapter on Flash Gordon talk about the Nostalgia Craze. It was a very, very potent force following the cultural upheavals, and I suspect that same preservation ethos was behind it.<br />Bobnoreply@blogger.com