Screening the Sixties: Hollywood Cinema and the Politics of Memory

by Oliver Gruner

Book Overview

This book provides a detailed and engaging account of how Hollywood cinema has represented and 'remembered' the Sixties. From late 1970s hippie musicals such as Hair and The Rose through to recent civil rights portrayals The Help and Lee Daniels' The Butler, Oliver Gruner explores the ways in which films have engaged with broad debates on America's recent past. Drawing on extensive archival research, he traces production history and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137496320
• ISBN13: 9781137496324
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.7"