Screening the past memory and nostalgia in cinema / [Book :]
Pam Cook.
- New York : Routledge, 2004.
- xiii, 246 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the past today -- Rethinking nostalgia: In the mood for love and Far from heaven -- Duplicity in Mildred Pierce -- Women and the Western -- The pleasures and perils of exploitation films -- Melodrama and the women's picture -- Mandy: daughter of transition -- Memory in British cinema: brief encounters -- Stars and politics -- The gold diggers -- No fixed address: the women's picture from Outrage to Blue Steel -- Masculinity in crisis? -- The last temptation of Christ -- Scorsese's masquerade -- The age of innocence -- Fashion and sexual display in 1950s Hollywood -- Replicating the past: memory and history in Dance with a stranger -- Fictions of identity: style, mimicry, and gender in the films of Kathryn Bigelow.
All age.
0415183758 0415183758 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Nostalgia in motion pictures. Memory in motion pictures. Motion pictures--Psychological aspects.