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Explores the connection between film and popular history.

Table of Contents
Folklore, memory and postcoloniality in Ousmane Sembene's films; "Which way is west?" - Americanism, history and the Italian western; the operatic as history - two Risorgimento narratives; sheets of the past - folklore, the biopic and "The scarlet empress"; "You remember Diana Dors, don't you?" - history, femininity, and the law in 1950s and 1980s British cinema; historical capital - mourning, melodrama and nazism.

Cinematic Uses of the Past

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/12/1996
      ISBN13: 9780816628254, 978-0816628254
      ISBN10: 0816628254

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores the connection between film and popular history.

      Table of Contents
      Folklore, memory and postcoloniality in Ousmane Sembene's films; "Which way is west?" - Americanism, history and the Italian western; the operatic as history - two Risorgimento narratives; sheets of the past - folklore, the biopic and "The scarlet empress"; "You remember Diana Dors, don't you?" - history, femininity, and the law in 1950s and 1980s British cinema; historical capital - mourning, melodrama and nazism.

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