Abstract

Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Memory and popular film - Paul Grainge PART ONE: PUBLIC HISTORY, PRIVATE 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 cinema-going in the 'Golden Age' of Hollywood - Sarah Stubbings 4. Raiding the archive: Film festivals and the revival of Classic Hollywood - Julian Stringer PART TWO: 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 rights 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 THREE: 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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