Introduction: Is Pop Culture trapped in the past?

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Published: Jun 30, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34929/imaginaires.vi26.51

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Yannick Bellenger-Morvan
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, CIRLEP, Reims, France

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In 2011, music critic Simon Reynolds's essay Retromania came out, the main argument of which was that “We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. […] Could it be that the greatest danger to the future of our music culture is … its past?” (Reynolds: ix). Reynolds’s focus was on pop music at the turn of the new millennium, questioning the role of its producers and the tastes of its audience, stuck in a state of “hyper-stasis” (Reynolds, ibid.). More than one decade after Reynolds’s thought-provoking analysis, one may wonder whether this assumption is still relevant today. Can it be extended to other objects of pop culture?

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Bellenger-Morvan, Y. (2024). Introduction: Is Pop Culture trapped in the past? . Imaginaires, (26), 7-10. https://doi.org/10.34929/imaginaires.vi26.51
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No. 26 (2024): Retrophilia, Nostalgia and the End of Pop Culture
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Yannick Bellenger-Morvan, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, CIRLEP, Reims, France

Yannick Bellenger-Morvan is Associate Professor at the English Department of the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France. She has published about twenty peer-reviewed academic papers on popular culture for children, teenagers, and young adults. She co-edited a collection of essays on Children’s literature and Popular Cultural Identity (Reims University Press, 2016). Her latest publications include articles on Jim Henson’s TV series Fraggle Rock (in Children, Youth and American Television, Routledge, 2018) and on animated film adaptations of Roald Dahl’s novels (Les Cahiers Robinson, Artois University Press, April 2020). She also edited an annotated and critical translation of Victorian author George MacDonald’s fairy tales (George MacDonald, La Princesse légère et autres contes, Héritages Critiques, vol. IX, Reims, Editions et presses universitaires de Reims, 2019). She is general editor of the academic journal Imaginaires.