Screening the Sixties: Hollywood Cinema and the Politics of Memory - 9781137496324

This book provides a detailed and engaging account of how Hollywood cinema has represented and ærememberedÆ the Sixties. From late 1970s hippie musicals such as Hair and The Rose through to recent civil rights portrayals The Help and Lee DanielsÆ The Butler, Oliver Gruner explores the ways in which films have engaged with broad debates on AmericaÆs recent past. Drawing on extensive archival research, he traces production history and script development, showing how a group of politically engaged filmmakers sought to offer resonant contributions to public memory. Situating Hollywood within a wider series of debates taking place in the US public sphere, Screening the Sixties offers a rigorous and innovative study of cinemaÆs engagement with this most contested of epochs.

• | Author: Oliver Gruner
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Oct 19, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 317 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Performing Arts
• | ISBN-10: 1137496320
• | ISBN-13: 9781137496324