Memory and popular film / / edited by Paul Grainge.

""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.

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Superior document:Inside popular film
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Year of Publication:2003
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Inside popular film.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 261 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of 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.