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Screening the past : memory and nostalgia in cinema / Pam Cook.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.N67 C66 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cook, Pam, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nostalgia in motion pictures.
- Memory in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Psychological aspects.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
- Summary:
- essays sit side by side with new research, contextualized by introductions which bring them up-to-date, and provide suggestions for further reading. The result is a rich and stimulating volume that will appeal to anyone with an interest in cinema, memory and identity.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the past today
- Rethinking nostalgia: In the mood for love and Far from heaven
- Duplicity in Mildred Pierce
- Women and the Western
- The pleasures and perils of exploitation films
- Melodrama and the women's picture
- Mandy: daughter of transition
- Memory in British cinema: brief encounters
- Stars and politics
- The gold diggers
- No fixed address: the women's picture from Outrage to Blue Steel
- Masculinity in crisis? tragedy and identification in Raging bull
- The last temptation of Christ
- Scorsese's masquerade
- The age of innocence
- Fashion and sexual display in 1950s Hollywood
- Replicating the past: memory and history in Dance with a stranger
- Fictions of identity: style, mimicry, and gender in the films of Kathryn Bigelow.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 041518374X
- 0415183758
- OCLC:
- 54817502
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