Screening the Sixties : Hollywood Cinema and the Politics of Memory
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1349953830
ISBN-13
9781349953837
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 16th, 2018
Print length
289 Pages
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From late 1970s hippie musicals such as Hair and The Rose through to recent civil rights portrayals The Help and Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Oliver Gruner explores the ways in which films have engaged with broad debates on America’s recent past.
This book provides a detailed and engaging account of how Hollywood cinema has represented and ''remembered'' the Sixties. From late 1970s hippie musicals such as Hair and The Rose through to recent civil rights portrayals The Help and Lee Daniels'' The Butler, Oliver Gruner explores the ways in which films have engaged with broad debates on America''s recent past. Drawing on extensive archival research, he traces production history and script development, showing how a group of politically engaged filmmakers sought to offer resonant contributions to public memory. Situating Hollywood within a wider series of debates taking place in the US public sphere, Screening the Sixties offers a rigorous and innovative study of cinema''s engagement with this most contested of epochs.
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