| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 235 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Summary |
Events 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. This book analyses films that give shape to the counternarrative that has emerged since 9/11 - one that challenges the traditional myths of the American nation-state |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Historical films -- United States -- History and criticism
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Motion pictures and history.
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ART -- Film & Video.
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Historical films
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Motion pictures
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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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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1299944795 |
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9781299944794 |
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9780816673285 |
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0816673284 |
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9781452945842 |
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1452945845 |
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