{"product_id":"memory-and-popular-film-9780719063756","title":"Memory and Popular Film","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMemory and Popular Film\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eConsidering the relationship between official and modern memory, the politics of memory, and the technological and representational shifts that have come to affect memory's contemporary mediation, the book contributes to the growing debate on the status and function of the past in cultural life and discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy gathering key critics from film studies, American studies, and cultural studies, the text establishes a framework for discussing the issues of memory in film and of film as memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTogether with essays on the remembered past in early film marketing, within popular reminiscence and at film festivals, the book considers memory films such as \u003cem\u003eForrest Gump\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLone Star\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePleasantville\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRosewood\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eJackie Brown\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596979028204,"sku":"9780719063756","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780719063756-memory-and-popular-film.jpg?v=1777945355","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/memory-and-popular-film-9780719063756","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}