| Description |
xvi, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Race and nation in Glory -- Native America, Thunderheart, and the national imaginary -- National identity, gender identity, and the rescue fantasy in Born on the Fourth of July -- Modernism and the narrative of nation in JFK -- Prosthetic memory/national memory: Forrest Gump -- The columbian exchange: Pocahontas and The new world -- Homeland or promised land?: the ethnic construction of nation in Gangs of New York -- Haunting in the war film: Flags of our fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima -- Trauma and history in United 93 and World Trade Center |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Historical films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Motion pictures and history.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- In motion pictures.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85141046
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| LC no. |
2009017764 |
| ISBN |
0816642915 (hc : alk. paper) |
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0816642923 (pb : alk. paper) |
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9780816642915 (hc : alk. paper) |
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9780816642922 (pb : alk. paper) |
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