ISBN:
0719063744
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0719063752
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1847790402
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1280734361
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1417578068
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9780719063749
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9780719063756
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9781847790408
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9781280734366
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9781417578061
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 261 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Inside popular film
Parallel Title:
Print version Memory and popular film
Keywords:
Motion pictures
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Motion pictures Social aspects
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Motion pictures
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Motion pictures Social aspects
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The arts
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Film, TV and radio
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Films, cinema
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Film theory and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS ; Film & Video ; History & Criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS ; Film & Video
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Motion pictures
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Motion pictures ; Social aspects
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Film
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Filmkunst
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Herinnering
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Film
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USA
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United States
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USA
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Anthologies
Abstract:
"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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: memory and popular film
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PART I. PUBLIC HISTORY, POPULAR MEMORY ; White man's country: Yale's Chronicles of America
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Civic pageantry and public memory in the silent era commemorative film: The pony express at the Diamond Jubilee
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'Look behind you!': momories of cinema-going in the 'Golden Age' of Hollywood
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Raiding the archive: film festivals and the revival of Classic Hollywood
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PART II. THE POLITICS OF MEMORY ; Articulation of memory and desire: from Vietnam to the war in the Persian Gulf
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Movie-made movement: civil rites of passage
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Prosthetic memory: the ethics and politics of memory in an age of mass culture
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'Forget the Alamo': history, legend and memory in John Sayles' Lone star
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PART III. MEDIATING MEMORY ; 'Mortgaged to music': new retro movies in 1990s Hollywood cinema
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Colouring the past: Pleasantville and the textuality of media memory
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Memory, history and digital imagery in contemporary film
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Postcinema/postmemory
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English
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