Memory and Popular Film

by Grainge, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780719063756
• ISBN10: 0719063752
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-17
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Paul Grainge is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	x
Introduction: memory and popular film
Paul Grainge	1	(20)
Part I Public history, popular memory	21	(76)
1 A white man's country: Yale's Chronicles of America
Roberta E. Pearson	23	(19)
2 Civic pageantry and public memory in the silent era commemorative film: The Pony Express at the Diamond Jubilee
Heidi Kenaga	42	(23)
3 'Look behind you!': memories of cinema-going in the 'Golden Age' of Hollywood
Sarah Stubbings	65	(16)
4 Raiding the archive: film festivals and the revival of Classic Hollywood
Julian Stringer	81	(16)
Part II The politics of memory	97	(84)
5 The articulation of memory and desire: from Vietnam to the war in the Persian Gulf
John Storey	99	(21)
6 The movie-made Movement: civil rites of passage
Sharon Monteith	120	(24)
7 Prosthetic memory: the ethics and politics of memory in an age of mass culture
Alison Landsberg	144	(18)
8 'Forget the Alamo': history, legend and memory in John Sayles' Lone Star
Neil Campbell	162	(19)
Part III Mediating memory	181	(76)
9 'Mortgaged to music': new retro movies in 1990's Hollywood cinema
Philip Drake	183	(19)
10 Colouring the past: Pleasantville and the textuality of media memory
Paul Grainge	202	(18)
11 Memory, history and digital imagery in contemporary film
Robert Burgoyne	220	(17)
12 Postcinema/Postmemory
Jeffrey Pence	237	(20)
Index	257