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Pam Cook - Screening the Past: Memory and Nostalgia in Cinema - 9780415183758 - V9780415183758
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Screening the Past: Memory and Nostalgia in Cinema

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Description for Screening the Past: Memory and Nostalgia in Cinema Paperback. Screening the Past explores the different ways memory and nostalgia are used in cinema, focusing on current debates about the way the media represents the past. Num Pages: 264 pages, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
From Mildred Pierce and Brief Encounter to Raging Bull and In the Mood for Love, this lively and accessible collection explores film culture's obsession with the past, offering searching and provocative analyses of a wide range of titles. Screening the Past engages with current debates about the role of cinema in mediating history through memory and nostalgia, suggesting that many films use strategies of memory to produce diverse forms of knowledge which challenge established ideas of history, and the traditional role of historians. Classic essays sit side by side ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
422g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415183758
SKU
V9780415183758
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Pam Cook
Pam Cook is Professor of European Film and Media at the University of Southampton. She is co-editor of The Cinema Book (BFI, 1999), and her many publications on film include Fashioning the Nation: Costume and Identity in British Cinema (BFI, 1996) and I Know Where I'm Going! (BFI, 2002)

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