Bad History and the Logics of Blockbuster Cinema [electronic resource] : Titanic, Gangs of New York, Australia, Inglourious Basterds /
McGee, P.author.
McGee studies historical representation in commodified, popular cinema as expressions of historical truths that more authentic histories usually miss and argues for the political and social significance of mass culture through the interpretation of four recent big-budget movies: Titanic, Gangs of New York, Australia, and Inglourious Basterds .
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: truth, history, and counterdisciplinary practices in film studies --  Terrible beauties: messianic time and the image of social redemption in James Cameron's Titanic. True lies -- Dream ship -- Sublime terror -- Infinite history: Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York and the production of the inexistent. Color of money -- The gangster and the priest -- Amsterdam and New York -- Spectacles of fearsome acts -- The event no one sees -- Infinite history -- "No dreaming, no story, nothing": Baz Luhrmann's Australia, the  cinematic common, and postcolonial discourse. Aboriginal reality show -- Logic of the common -- Utopia, dystopia, and disutopia -- Love of the common -- Conclusion:  the glorious truth about inglorious history in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious basterds.
McGee studies historical representation in commodified, popular cinema as expressions of historical truths that more authentic histories usually miss and argues for the political and social significance of mass culture through the interpretation of four recent big-budget movies: Titanic, Gangs of New York, Australia, and Inglourious Basterds .
Motion pictures-History.
Motion pictures and television.
Arts.
Communication.
Motion picture authorship.
Film History.
Screen Studies.
Arts.
Media Studies.
Screenwriting.