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Record Nr.

UNINA9910146879803321

Titolo

Memory and popular film / / edited by Paul Grainge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

9786610734368

9781280734366

1280734361

9781847790408

1847790402

9781417578061

1417578068

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Inside popular film

Altri autori (Persone)

GraingePaul <1972->

Disciplina

791.43/75

Soggetti

Motion pictures - United States

Motion pictures - Social aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

""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.