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JOY Drive

10 Aug 2022

Tom Van Laer x JOY Drive: Pseudo Nostalgia

Literature, Society & Culture, TV & Film

Met someone who wasn’t even born in the 80s who loves the era and wants to dress and act like they lived it? It’s not just you! There is such thing as ‘pseudo nostalgia’, Em and Warren find out about it from Associate Professor of Narratology at the University of Sydney, Tom Van Laer. Plus, they find out what narratology is!

They ask the questions, so you don’t have to!

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