Grainge Paul. Memory and Popular Film

Manchester University Press, 2003. — 270 pp.Public history, popular memory: A white man’s country: Yale’s Chronicles of America; Civic pageantry and public memory in the silent era commemorative film: The Pony Express at the Diamond Jubilee; ‘Look behind you! ’: memories of cinema-going in the ‘Golden Age’ of Hollywood; Raiding the archive: film festivals and the revival of Classic Hollywood;The politics of memory: The articulation of memory and desire: from Vietnam to the war in the Persian Gulf; The movie-made Movement: civil rites of passage; Prosthetic memory: the ethics and politics of memory in an age of mass culture; ‘Forget the Alamo’: history, legend and memory in John Sayles’Mediating memory: ‘Mortgaged to music’: new retro movies in 1990s Hollywood cinema; Colouring the past: Pleasantville and the textuality of media memory; Memory, history and digital imagery in contemporary film; Postcinema/Postmemory