Bad history and the logics of blockbuster cinema
Subtitle: Titanic, Gangs of New York, Australia, Inglourious basterds
By: Patrick McGee
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780230116511
Subjects: Historical films; History and criticism; Motion pictures and history
Description: 209 p. ; 22 cm
Table of contents: title: Introduction: truth, history, and counterdisciplinary practices in film studies; title: Terrible beauties: messianic time and the image of social redemption in James Cameron's Titanic. True lies; title: Dream ship; title: Sublime terror; title: Infinite history: Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York and the production of the inexistent. Color of money; title: The gangster and the priest; title: Amsterdam and New York; title: Spectacles of fearsome acts; title: The event no one sees; title: Infinite history; title: "No dreaming, no story, nothing": Baz Luhrmann's Australia, the  cinematic common, and postcolonial discourse. Aboriginal reality show; title: Logic of the common; title: Utopia, dystopia, and disutopia; title: Love of the common; title: Conclusion:  the glorious truth about inglorious history in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious basterds.