Nostalgic collections. Issue 2 (4th March 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cross, Gary
• Is Part Of: Consumption, markets & culture. Volume 20:Issue 2(2017)
• Page Start: 101
• Page End: 106
• Publication Date: 2017-03-04
• Subjects: Childhood -- collecting -- consumption -- dolls -- nostalgia -- toys -- marketplace icon; Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Consumers -- Attitudes -- Periodicals; Marketing -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; 306.305
• DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2016.1167469
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1025-3866

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Nostalgia has been transformed by the consumer market. With the emergence of ephemeral novelty goods – popular music, TV serials, kitsch, automobiles, and especially playthings – nostalgia has become less about identification with past communities, ideologies, or regimes than associated with fast-changing consumer goods, especially those encountered in childhood and youth. Reappropriating those goods later in life in nostalgic collecting has become a big business, producing narrow cohorts of consumers sharing common consumer memories. I explore this phenomenon through the history of collecting toys, dolls, and Disney collectibles in the USA.