Pleasures of Nostalgia, Problems of Authenticity: 1970s America in Crowe's Almost Famous, Linklater's Dazed and Confused, and Scorsese's The Last Waltz
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Abstract
Introduction By looking comparatively at the nostalgic elements of three American 1970s-based films, we can better understand the period’s history, both imagined and re-imagined. The three films each variously promote a nostalgic interpretation of their events which disturb their would-be authenticity, in the process distorting their own value as insights on the period. Two of the films, Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused and Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous, are fictionalized memoirs of their authors’ 70s youths, while the third, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz , is a documentary film of a concert produced in that decade. All three films aim to make the audience feel sentimental, in particular about its youth. In delivering pleasant nostalgia, these films complicate (sometimes knowingly, sometimes not) the audience’s understanding of “real history.” These works at times present the past in ways that neatly match our expected cultural stereotypes of the past, reminding us of Jameson’s critique that nostalgia films cause an estrangement from history. Indeed, cinema’s mediation of the past raises issues of provenance, authority, and authenticity, which, in its “pastiche of the stereotypical past” can encourage an ahistorical reading of what went before. By placing the memoirs next to the documentary in this study, it is hoped the foregrounded nostalgic elements of the films will enable us to better assess the authenticity of the narratives being portrayed while still enjoying the films as spectacles of pleasure.
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