Burgoyne, Robert, 1949-

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.

9780816642915 (hc : alk. paper) 9780816642922 (pb : alk. paper)

2009017764


Historical films--History and criticism.--United States
Motion pictures and history.


United States--In motion pictures.

PN1995.9.H5 / B87 2010

791.43/658