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Screening the Sixties: Hollywood Cinema and the Politics of Memory
Oliver Gruner
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Hardback. Num Pages: 317 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; APFN; HBJK; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 218 x 23. Weight in Grams: 530.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
530g
Number of Pages
289
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137496324
SKU
V9781137496324
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About Oliver Gruner
Oliver Gruner is a Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He has written on subjects including the historical film, the Sixties and cultural memory. His work has been published in the journals Rethinking History and the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television as well as various edited collections.
Reviews for Screening the Sixties: Hollywood Cinema and the Politics of Memory
The book volume can definitely serve as a useful example for those who work around representation, public memory, and politics, whether on the Sixties in particular or not. ... Screening the Sixties is an impressively elaborate exploration of `the Sixties as a commemorative palimpsest upon which divergent narratives have been written and rewritten throughout the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s' ... Read more