"Cinematic Uses of the Past " was first published in 1996.
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From 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.
Landy 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 "A Fistful of Dynamite," "The Scarlet
Empress," "Dance with a Stranger," "Holocaust, Schindler's List,"
"Le camp de Thiaroye," "Guelwaar," "The Leopard," and "Veronika
Voss."
A thoroughly compelling reading of these emblematic films,
"Cinematic Uses of the Past "is also a revealing interpretation of
popular history, exposing the fragmentary, tentative, and invested
nature of cultural memory.
Marcia Landy is professor of literature and film studies at the
University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of several books,
including "Film, Politics, and Gramsci" (Minnesota, 1995).
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