UID:
almafu_9960119920702883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 227 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-4744-7084-X
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0-7486-7066-1
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0-7486-8055-1
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0-7486-7924-3
Content:
Hollywood has a growing fascination with America's past. This is evidenced in the release of a rash of films of this genre in the past 25 years. This book offers an analysis of how and why contemporary Hollywood films have sought to mediate American history. It is the first book to explore, comprehensively, the post-Cold War period of film-making, and to consider whether or how far contemporary films have begun to unravel the unifying myths of earlier films and periods. It also considers why such films are becoming increasingly integral to the ambitions of a globally-focused American film industry. The relationship between film and history - the way in which film mediates history and vice versa - is a complex one. In this book, the authors work from two main assumptions. First, that films revision events to challenge or, perhaps more typically, to reaffirm traditional historical interpretations. Second, that this process can only be understood in the context of contemporary debates about identity politics, America's role in world affairs, and the globalisation of the American film business.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Preface --
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Introduction --
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Chapter 1. Lessons from Hollywood's American revolution --
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Chapter 2 Rattling the chains of history: Steven Spielberg's amistad and 'telling everyone's story' --
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Chapter 3 Hollywood's civil war dilemma: to imagine or unravel the nation? --
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Chapter 4 Saving the good war: Hollywood and world war II in the post-cold war world --
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Chapter 5 Oliver Stone and the decade of trauma --
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Chapter 6 From civil rights to black nationalism: Hollywood v. black America? --
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Chapter 7 Hollywood's post-cold war history: the 'righteousness' of American interventionism --
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Selected bibliography --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7486-1490-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7486-1489-3
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
DOI:
10.1515/9781474470841
URL:
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URL:
http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9780748680559/type/BOOK
