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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.
Sommario
Introduction - Madeline Lane-McKinley and Sean O'Brien
Part One: The Rise of 90s Culture
1. "'90s Totalities" - Anna Zalokostas
2. "Birth of Pablo: The Rise of the Narco as an Icon 1990s Hip Hop" - Fernando Esquivel-Suarez
3. "Looking Backward at New Queer Cinema"- Octavio Gonzalez and Philip Longo
4. "The 90s, Belated" - Alya Ansari
Part Two: The Repressive 90s
5. "Ugh, As If! Clueless and the Incest Plot"- Isabel Bartholomew
6. "Warts and All: Looking at the Anarchist Counterculture in the Anti-Globalization Movement" - Sean Lovitt
7. "'What we excrete comes back to consume us': Waste, Repressed Contradictions, and Haunting in Don DeLillo's Underworld" - Jacob Miller
Part Three: Residual Histories of the 90s
8. "Guile and Guilt: Samuel Delany's The Mad Men and AIDS Historicism in the 90s" - Jo Giardini
9. "The High School Professional Managerial Class: From the 90s to the '60s" - Sam Samore
10. "Into and Out of the '90s: Star Trek Spinoffs and the New Neoliberalism" - Shama Rangwala
11. "'Welcome to fucktown': Enclosure and the Pastoral Epistolary in 90s Vancouver" - Sam Weselowski
Part Four: Reckoning with the 90s
12. "The Little Deaths of the Erotic Thriller" - Madeline Lane-McKinley
13. "The Good Life 2.0: New Economy Optimism and the Cultural Legacy of the Networked 90s" - Sean O'Brien
14. "The Revanchist 90s: New Urban Frontiers and the World Trade Center" - Dara Orenstein
Info autore
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.
