Cook, Pam , 1943-

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)

2004006798


Nostalgia in motion pictures.
Memory in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--Psychological aspects.

PN1995.9.N67 / C66 2004

791.43653