Screening the past
Subtitle: memory and nostalgia in cinema
By: Pam Cook.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Nostalgia in motion pictures.; Memory in motion pictures.; Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: the past today; value: Rethinking nostalgia: In the mood for love and Far from heaven; value: Duplicity in Mildred Pierce; value: Women and the Western; value: The pleasures and perils of exploitation films; value: Melodrama and the women's picture; value: Mandy: daughter of transition; value: Memory in British cinema: brief encounters; value: Stars and politics; value: The gold diggers; value: No fixed address: the women's picture from Outrage to Blue Steel; value: Masculinity in crisis?; value: The last temptation of Christ; value: Scorsese's masquerade; value: The age of innocence; value: Fashion and sexual display in 1950s Hollywood; value: Replicating the past: memory and history in Dance with a stranger; value: Fictions of identity: style, mimicry, and gender in the films of Kathryn Bigelow.