{"product_id":"screening-the-past-9780415183758","title":"Screening the Past","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eMildred Pierce\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBrief Encounter\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eRaging Bull\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIn the Mood for Love, \u003c\/em\u003ethis lively and accessible collection explores film culture''s obsession with the past, offering searching and provocative analyses of a wide range of titles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eScreening the Past\u003c\/em\u003e engages with current debates about the role of cinema in mediating history through memory and nostalgia, suggesting that many films use strategies of memory to produce diverse forms of knowledge which challenge established ideas of history, and the traditional role of historians. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClassic essays sit side by side with new research, contextualized by introductions which bring them up to date, and provide suggestions for further reading as the work of contemporary directors such as Martin Scorsese, Kathryn Bigelow, Todd Haynes and Wong Kar-wai is used to examine the different ways they deploy creative processes of memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePam Cook also investigates the recent history of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'!!!! Must Read.' \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e- Today's Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRethinking Nostalgia:\u003cem\u003e In the Mood for Love\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFar from Heaven.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSection 1\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cstrong\u003e Reviewing the Past: History, Gender and Genrec \u003c\/strong\u003eIntroduction. Duplicity in \u003cem\u003eMildred Pierce. \u003c\/em\u003e Women and the Western. The Pleasures and Perils of Exploitation Films. \u003cstrong\u003eSection 2: History and Memory in Popular British Cinema. \u003c\/strong\u003e Introduction. Melodrama and the Women's Picture. \u003cem\u003eMandy\u003c\/em\u003e: Daughter of Transition. Memory in British Cinema: Brief Encounters \u003cstrong\u003eSection 3: Stars, Iconoclasm and Identification\u003c\/strong\u003e. Introduction. Stars and Politics. \u003cem\u003eThe Gold Diggers. \u003c\/em\u003e No Fixed Address: The Women's Picture from \u003cem\u003eOutrage\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eBlue Steel \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSection 4: Martin Scorsese and Post-classical Nostalgia\u003c\/strong\u003e. Introduction. Masculinity in Crisis? \u003cem\u003eThe Last Temptation of Christ. \u003c\/em\u003e Scorsese's \u003cem\u003eMasquerade\u003c\/em\u003e . \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Innocence \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSection 5: Reinventing the Past: Costume and Identity\u003c\/strong\u003e. Introduction, Fashion and Sexual Display in 1950s Hollywood. Replicating the Past: Memory and History in \u003cem\u003eDance with a Stranger. \u003c\/em\u003e Fictions of Identity: Style, Mimicry and Gender in the Films of Kathryn Bigelow\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018113745239,"sku":"9780415183758","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415183758.jpg?v=1750775676","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/screening-the-past-9780415183758","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}