Memory and popular film (Manchester University Press, 2003)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction - memory and popular film - Paul Grainge -- - PART I. PUBLIC HISTORY, POPULAR MEMORY -- - White man's country: Yale's Chronicles of America - Roberta E. Pearson -- - Civic pageantry and public memory in the silent era commemorative film: The pony express at the Diamond Jubilee - Heidi Kenaga -- - 'Look behind you!': momories of cinema-going in the 'Golden Age' of Hollywood - Sarah Stubbings -- - Raiding the archive: film festivals and the revival of Classic Hollywood - Julian Stringer -- - PART II. THE POLITICS OF MEMORY -- - Articulation of memory and desire: from Vietnam to the war in the Persian Gulf - John Storey -- - Movie-made movement: civil rites of passage - Sharon Monteith -- - Prosthetic memory: the ethics and politics of memory in an age of mass culture - Alison Landsberg -- - 'Forget the Alamo': history, legend and memory in John Sayles' Lone star - Neil Campbell -- - PART III. MEDIATING MEMORY -- - 'Mortgaged to music': new retro movies in 1990s Hollywood cinema - Philip Drake -- - Colouring the past: Pleasantville and the textuality of media memory - Paul Grainge -- - Memory, history and digital imagery in contemporary film - Robert Burgoyne -- - Postcinema/postmemory - Jeffrey Pence
"Memory and Popular Film" uses memory as a specific framework for the cultural study of film. Taking Hollywood as its focus, the text provides a sustained, interdisciplinary perspective on memory and film, from early cinema to the present