{"product_id":"history-films-women-and-freuds-susan-e-linville-9780292702691","title":"History Films, Women, and Freud's Uncanny","description":"\u003cp\u003e History films were a highly popular genre in the 1990s, as Hollywood looked back at significant and troubling episodes from World War II, the Cold War era, and the techno-war in the Persian Gulf. As filmmakers attempted to confront and manage intractable elements of the American past, such as the trauma of war and the legacy of racism, Susan Linville argues that a surprising casualty occurred--the erasure of relevant facets of contemporary women's history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In this book, Linville offers a sustained critique of the history film and its reduction of women to figures of ambivalence or absence. Historicizing and adapting Freud's concept of the uncanny and its relationship to the maternal body as the first home, she offers theoretically sophisticated readings of the films \u003ci\u003eMidnight Clear, Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line, Nixon, Courage Under Fire, Lone Star, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLimbo.\u003c\/i\u003e She also demonstrates that the uncanny is not only a source of anxiety but also potentially a progressive force for eroding nostalgic ideals of nation and gender. Linville concludes with a close reading of a recent 9\/11 documentary, showing how the patterns and motifs of 1990s history films informed it and what that means for our future. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan E. Linville\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0292702698\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292702691\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.92w x 0.61d","brand":"Susan E. Linville","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44245037482239,"sku":"9780292702691","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f76de343-ac25-4d8f-8b33-0fb3fd72546a.jpg?v=1693925760","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/history-films-women-and-freuds-susan-e-linville-9780292702691","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}