Description
Book SynopsisIn this book, Linville offers a sustained critique of the history film and its reduction of women to figures of ambivalence or absence.
Trade Review"Linville takes a highly original angle on the subject of women and historical representation in film, arguing that the concept of the Freudian uncanny provides a way of characterizing and explaining the structuring absence or the ambivalent characterization of women in a genre that has become increasingly important to national self-definition... I find her argument to be complex, subtle, and illuminating." --Robert Burgoyne, Wayne State University, author of Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Remembering World War II: Aesthetics and Gender in the Combat Film of the 1990s
- Chapter 2. Standing Pat: The First Lady in Oliver Stone's Nixon
- Chapter 3. "The Mother of All Battles": Courage Under Fire and the Gender-Integrated Military
- Chapter 4. "Forget the Alamo": Lone Star,Limbo, and the Limits of the Nation
- Epilogue. 9/11
- Notes
- Bibliography and Filmography
- Index
