{"product_id":"cinematic-uses-of-the-past","title":"Cinematic Uses of the Past","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCinematic Uses of the Past \u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1996. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the first, cinema has sustained a romance with the past. The nature of this attachment, and what it reveals about our culture, is the subject of Marcia Landy's book. Cinematic Uses of the Past looks at British, American, Italian, and African films for what they can tell us about popular history and our cultural investment in certain images of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLandy peruses six different moments in the history of cinema, employing the theories of Nietzsche and Gramsci. Her reading of these films explores their investments in history and memory in relation to ideas of nation, sexuality, gender, and race. Among the films she discusses are \u003ci\u003eA Fistful of Dynamite\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Scarlet Empress\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDance with a Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHolocaust, Schindler's List\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLe camp de Thiaroye\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuelwaar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Leopard\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVeronika Voss\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA thoroughly compelling reading of these emblematic films, \u003ci\u003eCinematic Uses of the Past \u003c\/i\u003eis also a revealing interpretation of popular history, exposing the fragmentary, tentative, and invested nature of cultural memory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarcia Landy is professor of literature and film studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eFilm, Politics, and Gramsci\u003c\/i\u003e (Minnesota, 1995).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54222092829016,"sku":"9780816628254","price":62.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/cinematic-uses-of-the-past","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}