Research: The challenge of nostalgia in the creative process
The Cold War is back. Both in academic circles and popular culture. The popularity of Tom Robb Smith’s Child 44, (given a big budget Hollywood treatment this year), has not a little to do with the spending power of a generation who are both nostalgic and curious about the geo-political environment which shaped them. The same generation is now employed in Higher Education, and producing titles like The New Cold War, and The Fall of the Soviet Union (in academia, the Soviet Uni