Film nation
Subtitle: Hollywood looks at U.S. history
By: Robert Buryoyne.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780816642915; 9780816642922
Subjects: Historical films -- United States -- History and criticism; Motion pictures and history; United States -- In motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Race and nation in Glory; title: Native America, Thunderheart, and the national imaginary; title: National identity, gender identity, and the rescue fantasy in Born on the Fourth of July; title: Modernism and the narrative of nation in JFK; title: Prosthetic memory/national memory: Forrest Gump; title: The columbian exchange: Pocahontas and The new world; title: Homeland/promised land: Gangs of New York; title: Haunting in the war film: Flags of our fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima; title: Trauma and history in United 93 and World Trade Center.