Citations:retrophilia

Noun: "the attraction to and preference for that which is from or characteristic of the past"

 * 1994 — Raphael Samuel, Theatres of Memory: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture, Verso (1996), ISBN 1-85984-077-9, page 291:
 * Nevertheless, among property owners, to judge by a stream of attacks on 'retrophilia' in the quality press, there is a rising tide of complaint about heritage officers — a bunch of crazed aesthetes, as they sometimes appear, attempting to regulate the shape of the last corbel;
 * 1996 — Elysa Gardner, "Gloria Gaynor: I'll Be There", Vibe, March 1996:
 * The upside of this raw deal, though, is that she's now in a position to cash in on the retrophilia that currently pervades pop culture — in the way that '70s icons from Barry White to Meat Loaf have in recent years.
 * 2000 — Arion Berger, "Supergrass", Entertainment Weekly, 10 April 2000:
 * The trio rejects the loutishness and retrophilia of its colleagues;
 * 2003 — Martin Livings, "Sigmund Freud and the Feral Freeway", in Agog! Terrific Tales: New Australian Speculative Fiction (ed. Cat Sparks), Agog! Press (2006), ISBN 0809556316, page 134:
 * The tinkertoys were the direct result of humanity's obsession with the past, a hysterical retrophilia which blinded the general public to the present.
 * 2008 — Saby Reyes-Kulkarni, "Portugal the Man brings its unique psychedelic boogie improv to Phoenix", Phoenix New Times, 28 August 2008:
 * And though the band's high-pitched vocals and modern twist on prog warrant obvious comparisons to like-minded acts such as The Mars Volta and Circa Survive, PTM's sound stands apart, thanks to a distinctly boogie-rock feel that layers the music with the aroma of the 1970s but never veers into overt retrophilia.
 * 2010 — Kevin Alexander, "The secret to selling cool", Boston Globe, 21 November 2010:
 * At the same time, a wave of retrophilia started to crest. Clothing companies like Homage (which reproduces vintage-esque T's celebrating sports and pop culture from the '70s through the '90s) came up with unique ways to commercialize the interest in yesteryear.