Nostalgia: Finding the Future in the Past

Audience Nostalgia From looking down 2016’s box office results, it’s clear that a certain trend shows no sign of stopping. Sequels, remakes and reboots abound, tapping into audience nostalgia to massive success. Family animation is one of the few areas where original stories can become big hits, and even they are soon sequel-ised. A similar trend is taking hold of TV. Shows are revived, remade, spun-off, and increasingly adapted from films. They range from the more prestige, anthology-format FARGO down to procedurals like

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