POPULAR CINEMA AS NOSTALGIA INDUSTRY: REUNIONS, REMAKES, AND REQUELS

This article seeks to address 2021’s cathartic reunions on digital and in cinema order broaden a new perspective popular cinema’s one of the offers, nostalgic experience. study approaches remakes, reboots, requels, sequels, prequels, spin-offs, adaptations as reproduced works. The discussion is grounded idea that commercial way reproducing certain experiences canonical narratives dependent proposing nostalgia. Among commercially successful sequels early-2020s, are observed with several functions. As newly launched subscription video-on-demand platform, HBO Max aired three major single year. In this context, Friends: Reunion (2021), Matrix Resurrections Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return Hogwarts (2022) stage reunions. moviegoers witnessed ensemble Spider-Men from different decades franchises sequence worldwide highest-grossing movie 2021, Spider-Man: No Way Home. purpose reveal uptrend nostalgia-oriented offer discussions relation nostalgia debates reproduction practices through wide range literature review collection. Therefore, these four productions included scope discuss nostalgia’s function cinema, even streaming platforms. While scans works their contemporary counterparts, theoretical background centered memory studies combine related ways approaching them. Thus, proposes contribution field by investigating functions among terms qualities potential.