| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 246 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Screening the Past explores the different ways memory and nostalgia are used in cinema, focusing on current debates about the way the media represents the past. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nostalgia in motion pictures.
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Nostalgia in motion pictures. |
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Memory in motion pictures.
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Memory in motion pictures. |
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Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects.
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Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cook, Pam, 1943- Screening the past. London ; New York : Routledge, 2005 041518374X 0415183758 (DLC) 2004006798 (OCoLC)54817502 |
| ISBN |
0203337824 (electronic book) |
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9780203337820 (electronic book) |
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041518374X (Cloth) |
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0415183758 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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