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Film Nation
Explores contemporary American films that challenge official history. Our movies have started talking back to us, and Film Nation takes a close look at what they have to say. In movies like JFK and Forrest Gump, Robert Burgoyne sees a filmic extension of the debates that exercise us as a nation -- debates about race and culture and national identity, about the nature and makeup of American history. In analyses of five films that challenge the traditional myths of the nation-state -- Glory, Thunderheart, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, and Forrest Gump -- Burgoyne explores the reshaping of our collective imaginary in relation to our history. These movies, exploring the meaning of "nation" fr...
The Hollywood Historical Film
Takes you on a cinematic journey through the controversial portrayal of history on film - from the swashbuckling epics of the silent era to up-to-the-minute dramas like World Trade Center. With thought-provoking analysis, this work examines the power of historic films to entertain and promote national myths while influencing public opinion.
New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics
First published in 1992. New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics provides a comprehensive lexicon of semiotic concepts. With sections on linguistics, narratology, psychoanalysis and intertextuality, it constructs an indispensable dictionary for film theory, defining over five hundred critical terms. The authors address key aspects of contemporary semiotics and cultural debate, while referring to the work of key figures such as Peirce, Saussure, Derrida, Barthes, Propp, Genette, Greimas, Kristeva, Lacan, Metz, Bellour, Heath, Mulvey, Johnston, Rose, Doane, Bakhtin and Baudrillard. The semiotic concepts are illustrated by examples drawn from the films of directors such as Welles, Dreyer, Brunel, Godard, Hitchcock, Varda, Akerman and Woody Allen. Although especially geared to the needs of film students, New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics should be useful for scholars in all areas of the arts, philosophy and literature.
Bertolucci's 1900
Robert Burgoyne uses historical analysis to elucidate a range of historical arguments and interprestations in Bertolucci's 1900. His central proposition that the narrative patterning in all historical films vests them with the power of historical explanation provides a basis for understanding the genre of historical film.
The Collegiate Church of Wimborne Minster
A case-study of the changing fortunes of an English parish church during the middle ages, from its foundation in 718.
The New American War Film
"The New American War Film explores how, in the wake of 9/11, both the nature of military conflict and the symbolic frameworks that surround it have been dramatically reshaped. Drawing attention to changes in gender dynamics and the focus on war's lasting psychological effects within recent films, Robert Burgoyne demonstrates how cinema both reflects and reveals the national imaginary"--
The Publications of the Harleian Society
Includes reports, etc., of the Society.
