Nostalgia films evade their present through lavish generational imagery.

Evidence

Dick used science fiction to see his present as (past) history; the classical nostalgia film, while evading its present altogether, registered its historicist deficiency by losing itself in mesmerized fascination in lavish images of specific generational pasts. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 647

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s core task of distinguishing pastiche (nostalgia film’s ‘historicist deficiency’) from parody — this defines the retro mode’s mechanism. — connects to: Postmodern nostalgia-laden films yearn for the present while rendering the actual past inaccessible. — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 158
• DEFINE: Contrasts two distinct modes of historicity: SF seeing present-as-past vs. nostalgia film evading present through seductive imagery.