Film nation : Hollywood looks at U.S. history /
Robert Buryoyne.
- Revised edition.
- xvi, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Race and nation in Glory -- Native America, Thunderheart, and the national imaginary -- National identity, gender identity, and the rescue fantasy in Born on the Fourth of July -- Modernism and the narrative of nation in JFK -- Prosthetic memory/national memory: Forrest Gump -- The columbian exchange: Pocahontas and The new world -- Homeland/promised land: Gangs of New York -- Haunting in the war film: Flags of our fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima -- Trauma and history in United 93 and World Trade Center.