| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 261 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Series |
Inside popular film
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Inside popular film.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: memory and popular film / Paul Grainge -- PART I. PUBLIC HISTORY, POPULAR MEMORY -- White man's country: Yale's Chronicles of America / Roberta E. Pearson -- Civic pageantry and public memory in the silent era commemorative film: The pony express at the Diamond Jubilee / Heidi Kenaga -- 'Look behind you!': momories of cinema-going in the 'Golden Age' of Hollywood / Sarah Stubbings -- Raiding the archive: film festivals and the revival of Classic Hollywood / Julian Stringer -- PART II. THE POLITICS OF MEMORY -- Articulation of memory and desire: from Vietnam to the war in the Persian Gulf / John Storey -- Movie-made movement: civil rites of passage / Sharon Monteith -- Prosthetic memory: the ethics and politics of memory in an age of mass culture / Alison Landsberg -- 'Forget the Alamo': history, legend and memory in John Sayles' Lone star / Neil Campbell -- PART III. MEDIATING MEMORY -- 'Mortgaged to music': new retro movies in 1990s Hollywood cinema / Philip Drake -- Colouring the past: Pleasantville and the textuality of media memory / Paul Grainge -- Memory, history and digital imagery in contemporary film / Robert Burgoyne -- Postcinema/postmemory / Jeffrey Pence. |
| 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. |
| Access |
This work is licensed under the following Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- United States.
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Motion pictures. |
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United States. |
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects. |
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Electronic books.
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Anthologies.
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| Added Author |
Grainge, Paul, 1972-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Memory and popular film. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2003 0719063744 0719063752 (DLC) 2003046315 (OCoLC)51900491 |
| ISBN |
1417578068 (electronic book) |
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9781417578061 (electronic book) |
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9781847790408 (electronic book) |
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1847790402 (electronic book) |
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0719063752 |
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9780719063756 |
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9780719063749 |
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0719063744 |
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9780719063756 |
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0719063752 |
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1280734361 |
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9781280734366 |
| Standard No. |
9780719063756 |
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341357 |
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