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Memory and Popular Film by Paul Grainge (ed.)

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Memory and Popular Film
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Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN-13: 9780719063749
Number of pages: 272

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'Memory and popular film' uses memory as a specific framework for the cultural study of film. Taking Hollywood as its focus, this timely book provides a sustained, interdisciplinary perspective on memory and film from early cinema to the present.

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