Memory and popular film / edited by Paul Grainge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grainge, Paul, 1972-

Series:

Inside popular film.

Inside popular film

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--United States.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 261 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2003.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

textfile

Summary:

""Memory and Popular Film"" uses memory as a specific framework for the cultural study of film. Taking Hollywood as its focus, the text provides a sustained, interdisciplinary perspective on memory and film, from early cinema to the present.

Contents:

Introduction: memory and popular film / Paul Grainge

1. A white man's country: Yale's Chronicles of America / Roberta E. Pearson

2. Civic pageantry and public memory in the silent era commemorative film: The Pony Express at the Diamond Jubilee / Heidi Kenaga

3. 'Look behind you!': memories of cinemagoing in the 'Golden Age' of Hollywood / Sarah Stubbings

4. Raiding the archive: film festivals and the revival of Classic Hollywood / Julian Stringer

5. The articulation of memory and desire: from Vietnam to the war in the Persian Gulf / John Storey

6. The movie-made Movement: civil rites of passage / Sharon Monteith

7. Prosthetic memory: the ethics and politics of memory in an age of mass culture / Alison Landsberg

8. 'Forget the Alamo': history, legend and memory in John Sayles' Lone Star / Neil Campbell

9. 'Mortgaged to music': new retro movies in 1990's Hollywood cinema / Philip Drake

10. Colouring the past: Pleasantville and the textuality of media memory / Paul Grainge

11. Memory, history and digital imagery in contemporary film / Robert Burgoyne

12. Postcinema/Postmemory / Jeffrey Pence

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786610734368

9781280734366

1280734361

9781847790408

1847790402

9781417578061

1417578068

OCLC:

559740668