{"product_id":"film-nation-hollywood-looks-at-u-s-history-revised-edition-paperback-softback-9780816642922","title":"Film Nation; Hollywood Looks at U.S. History, Revised Edition (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816642922","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFilm Nation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHollywood Looks at U.S. History, Revised Edition\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobert Burgoyne (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816642922\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 12 March 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e176 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.338 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFilm Nation\u003c\/i\u003e is distinguished by Robert Burgoyne’s critical acuity, his on-the-money remarks about the subjects he interrogates, as well as the singularity of his focus on American Cinema and the ways by which film suggests much about American national identity.\" -\u003ci\u003eCineaste\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In\u003ci\u003e Film Nation\u003c\/i\u003e Robert Burgoyne argues that popular film plays a crucial role in formulating the imagined community of the nation state. A rewarding read.\" -\u003ci\u003eFilm and History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFilm Nation\u003c\/i\u003e rewards the reader with a continuous flow of stimulating ideas about how to discuss the content of recent history films.\" -\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Any historian who is interested in investigating film as history should forget about disciplinary turf wars and read Robert Burgoyne’s \u003ci\u003eFilm Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History\u003c\/i\u003e. A theoretically sophisticated but clearly and elegantly written work.\" -\u003ci\u003eRethinking History \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEvents of the past decade have dramatically rewritten the American national narrative, bringing to light an alternate history of nation, marked since the country’s origins by competing geopolitical interests, by mobility and migration, and by contending ethnic and racial groups.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIn this revised and expanded edition of \u003ci\u003eFilm Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, Robert Burgoyne analyzes films that give shape to the counternarrative that has emerged since 9\/11-one that challenges the traditional myths of the American nation-state. The films examined here, Burgoyne argues, reveal the hidden underlayers of nation, from the first interaction between Europeans and Native Americans (\u003ci\u003eThe New World\u003c\/i\u003e), to the clash of ethnic groups in nineteenth-century New York (\u003ci\u003eGangs of New York\u003c\/i\u003e), to the haunting persistence of war in the national imagination (\u003ci\u003eFlags of Our Fathers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLetters from Iwo Jima\u003c\/i\u003e) and the impact of the events of 9\/11 on American identity (\u003ci\u003eUnited 93\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWorld Trade Center\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eFilm Nation\u003c\/i\u003e provides innovative readings of attempts by such directors as Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, and Oliver Stone to visualize historical events that have acquired a mythical aura in order to open up the past to the contemporary moment.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePreface to the Revised Edition, Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1. Race and Nation in Glory, 2. Native America, Thunderheart, and the National Imaginary, 3. National Identity, Gender Identity, and the Rescue Fantasy in Born on the Fourth of July, 4. Modernism and the Narrative of Nation in JFK, 5. Prosthetic Memory\/National Memory: Forrest Gump, 6. The Columbian Exchange: Pocahontas and The New World, 7. Homeland or Promised Land? The Ethnic Construction of Nation in Gangs of New York, 8. Haunting in the War Film: Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, 9. Trauma and History in United 93 and World Trade Center, Notes, Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570066845976,"sku":"9780816642922","price":18.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/film-nation-hollywood-looks-at-u-s-history-revised-edition-paperback-softback-9780816642922","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}