Screening the past
Subtitle: memory and nostalgia in cinema
By: Pam Cook.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Nostalgia in motion pictures.; Memory in motion pictures.; Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects.
Description: "In this important new book, Pam Cook explores film culture's obsession with the past through analyses of a wide range of films, from Mildred Pierce and Brief Encounter to Raging Bull and Dance With a Stranger. She engages with current debates about the role of cinema in mediating history through memory and nostalgia through a discussion of In the Mood for Love and Far From Heaven, suggesting that many films use strategies of memory to challenge established ideas of history, and the traditional role of historians."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the past today; title: Rethinking nostalgia: In the mood for love and Far from heaven; title: Duplicity in Mildred Pierce; title: Women and the Western; title: The pleasures and perils of exploitation films; title: Melodrama and the women's picture; title: Mandy: daughter of transition; title: Memory in British cinema: brief encounters; title: Stars and politics; title: The gold diggers; title: No fixed address: the women's picture from Outrage to Blue Steel; title: Masculinity in crisis?; title: The last temptation of Christ; title: Scorsese's masquerade; title: The age of innocence; title: Fashion and sexual display in 1950s Hollywood; title: Replicating the past: memory and history in Dance with a stranger; title: Fictions of identity: style, mimicry, and gender in the films of Kathryn Bigelow.