Screening the Sixties Hollywood Cinema and the Politics of Memory
This book provides a detailed and engaging account of how Hollywood cinema has represented and ‘remembered’ the Sixties. From late 1970s hippie musicals such as Hair and The Rose through to recent civil rights portrayals The Help and Lee Da
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Screening the Sixties Hollywood Cinema and the Politics of Memory
Screening the Sixties
Oliver Gruner
Screening the Sixties Hollywood Cinema and the Politics of Memory
Oliver Gruner University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-49632-4 ISBN 978-1-137-49633-1 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-49633-1
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Firstly, my thanks to everyone at Palgrave Macmillan, and especially Chris Penfold and Harry Fanshawe, for their faith in the project, assistance and advice throughout the writing of this book. Many thanks also to the anonymous reviewer and clearance reader who provided helpful comments and suggestions on the proposal and final draft. My interest in film representations of the Sixties originated during my undergraduate years, developed as I undertook an MA and PhD and has continued to preoccupy me ever since. For more than ten years, I, like the proverbial ex-hippie, have not shut up about the Sixties. In the process I have accumulated many debts to those who have offered advice, constructive criticisms, helpful comments and inspiration (or simply tolerated my retro outbursts). At the University of Liverpool, Julia Hallam sparked my interest in film studies and supervised my undergraduate dissertation on American cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, planting the seeds of my long obsession. When I embarked on postgraduate studies at the University of East Anglia, I was lucky enough to have Peter Krämer as a
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