Memory and Popular Film
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English
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0-7190-6374-4
Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: memory and popular film - Paul Grainge
Part I Public history, popular memory
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
Part II The politics of memory
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
Part III Mediating memory
9 ‘Mortgaged to music’: new retro movies in 1990s 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
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