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Screening the Sixties: Hollywood Cinema and the Politics of Memory 2016 Edition
Contributor(s): Gruner, Oliver (Author)
ISBN: 1137496320     ISBN-13: 9781137496324
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
OUR PRICE:   $52.24  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology - General
- Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism
- History | Historiography
Dewey: 301
LCCN: 2016941776
Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.08" W x 8.68" (1.12 lbs) 289 pages
 
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This book provides a detailed and engaging account of how Hollywood cinema has represented and 'remembered' the Sixties. From late 1970s hippie musicals such as Hair and The Rose through to recent civil rights portrayals The Help and Lee Daniels' The Butler, Oliver Gruner explores the ways in which films have engaged with broad debates on America's recent past. Drawing on extensive archival research, he traces production history and script development, showing how a group of politically engaged filmmakers sought to offer resonant contributions to public memory. Situating Hollywood within a wider series of debates taking place in the US public sphere, Screening the Sixties offers a rigorous and innovative study of cinema's engagement with this most contested of epochs.