According to Fredric Jameson, nostalgic movies create a new past and convey a "pastness" that has nothing to do with history by a unhistorical collage of images about the past.

根据詹姆逊的看法，怀旧电影借助非地拼凑各种有过去的形象，创造出一种新的过去，传达一种非的“过去性”。