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- Guides the reader through an examination of the ways that Hollywood has represented the sixties
- Offers a unique study covering cinema's mediation of a controversial epoch
- Utilises a broad range of research to trace the history and development of the sixties on screen
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“Screening the Sixties: Hollywood Cinema and the Politics of Memory, by Oliver Gruner, is a superb work on the intersection of film, history, and memory. It is not just the best book that I have read on Sixties film, it is one of the best studies of its kind on any period. What is amazing to me is the author’s ability to deal with so many shifting different discourses over time – film, history, politics, gender, and race – and yet produce an incisive study. Gruner is not only remarkably fluent in multiple theories of social and political development, he also well understands the mutable landscapes of films in development.” (Robert A. Rosenstone, Professor Emeritus of History, California Institute of Technology, USA)
“This is a thoroughly researched and engagingly written study of Hollywood films about the Sixties. Screening the Sixties contains wonderfully perceptive film analyses and is always sensitive to the changing contours of political culture in the United States. Yetthe book’s most important contribution to the scholarly debates about public memory, American politics and Hollywood’s historical imagination is the attention and understanding it brings to the craft and art of script writing. Oliver Gruner gives the reader unique access to the creative process through which the stories that Hollywood tells take shape. By detailing the different ways the Sixties have been reconstructed by, and have come to matter to, script writers and directors as well as to Americans more generally, he demonstrates the ongoing importance of this period of profound cultural, social and political transformation.” (Peter Krämer, University of East Anglia, UK, author of “The New Hollywood: From Bonnie and Clyde to Star Wars”)
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Book Title: Screening the Sixties
Book Subtitle: Hollywood Cinema and the Politics of Memory
Authors: Oliver Gruner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49633-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-49632-4Published: 19 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95383-7Published: 16 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-49633-1Published: 17 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 289
Topics: Film Theory, American Culture, American Cinema and TV, Memory Studies