{"product_id":"film-nation-robert-burgoyne-9780816642922","title":"Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History, Revised Edition","description":"Events of the past decade have dramatically rewritten the American national narrative, bringing to light an alternate history of nation, marked since the country's origins by competing geopolitical interests, by mobility and migration, and by contending ethnic and racial groups. In this revised and expanded edition of \u003ci\u003eFilm Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, Robert Burgoyne analyzes films that give shape to the counternarrative that has emerged since 9\/11-one that challenges the traditional myths of the American nation-state. The films examined here, Burgoyne argues, reveal the hidden underlayers of nation, from the first interaction between Europeans and Native Americans (\u003ci\u003eThe New World\u003c\/i\u003e), to the clash of ethnic groups in nineteenth-century New York (\u003ci\u003eGangs of New York\u003c\/i\u003e), to the haunting persistence of war in the national imagination (\u003ci\u003eFlags of Our Fathers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLetters from Iwo Jima\u003c\/i\u003e) and the impact of the events of 9\/11 on American identity (\u003ci\u003eUnited 93\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWorld Trade Center\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003eFilm Nation\u003c\/i\u003e provides innovative readings of attempts by such directors as Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, and Oliver Stone to visualize historical events that have acquired a mythical aura in order to open up the past to the contemporary moment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Burgoyne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816642923\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816642922\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/20\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2010 pg. 259","brand":"Robert Burgoyne","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47244016779519,"sku":"9780816642922","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ee1ef61a-321d-41aa-ade8-8e97d92e343a.jpg?v=1758134730","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/film-nation-robert-burgoyne-9780816642922","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}