Film Nation Hollywood Looks at U. S. History, Revised Edition

Name: Film Nation Hollywood Looks at U. S. History, Revised Edition
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ISBN: 9780816642922

ISBN-10: 0816642923

ISBN-13: 9780816642922

Edition: 2010 (Revised)

Authors: Robert Burgoyne

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Events of the past decade have dramatically rewritten the American national narrative, bringing to light an alternate history of nation, marked since the country's origins by competing geopolitical interests, by mobility and migration, and by contending ethnic and racial groups.In this revised and expanded edition ofFilm Nation, Robert Burgoyne analyzes films that give shape to the counternarrative that has emerged since 9/11one that challenges the traditional myths of the American nation-state. The films examined here, Burgoyne argues, reveal the hidden underlayers of nation, from the first interaction between Europeans and Native Americans (The New World), to the clash of ethnic groups in…

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List price: $25.50
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 3/12/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.46" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Robert Burgoyne is Professor of English and Film Studies at Wayne State University. He is the author of Bertolucci's 1900: A Narrative and Historical Analysis; Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History; and coauthor, with Robert Stam and Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, of New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics.



Preface to the Revised Edition


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Race and Nation in Glory



Native America, Thunderheart, and the National Imaginary



National Identity, Gender Identity, and the Rescue Fantasy in Born on the Fourth of July



Modernism and the Narrative of Nation in JFK



Prosthetic Memory/National Memory: Forrest Gump



The Columbian Exchange: Pocahontas and The New World



Homeland or Promised Land? The Ethnic Construction of Nation in Gangs of New York



Haunting in the War Film: Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima



Trauma and History in United 93 and World Trade Center


Notes


Index