| Memory and Popular Film Contributor(s): Grainge, Paul (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0719063752 ISBN-13: 9780719063756 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2003 Annotation: Taking Hollywood as its focus, this timely book provides a sustained, interdisciplinary perspective on memory and film from early cinema to the present. Considering the relationship between official and popular memory, the politics of memory, and the technological and representational shifts that have come to effect memory's contemporary mediation, the book contributes to the growing debate on the status and function of the past in cultural life and discourse. By gathering key critics from film studies, American studies and cultural studies, "Memory and Popular Film" establishes a framework for discussing issues of memory "in" film and of film "as" memory. Together with essays on the remembered past in early film marketing, within popular reminiscence, and at film festivals, the book considers memory films such as "Forrest Gump," "Lone Star," "Pleasantville," "Rosewood" and "Jackie Brown," |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - Guides & Reviews - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 791.437 |
| LCCN: 2003046315 |
| Series: Inside Popular Film |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.42" W x 8.64" (0.75 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: One of the first books to put memory at the centre of analysis when exploring the relationship between film culture and the past. Provides a sustained, interdisciplinary perspective on memory and film from early cinema to the present, drawing from film studies, American studies and cultural studies. Adopts a resolutely cultural perspective and unlike psychoanalytic or formalist approaches to memory, explores questions of culture, power and identity. Contributes to the growing debate about the status and function of the past in cultural life and discourse, discussing issues of memory in film, and of film as memory. Considers such well known films as Forrest Gump, Pleasantville, and Jackie Brown. |