{"product_id":"film-nation-1","title":"Film Nation","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eEvents 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn 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).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\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.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Robert Burgoyne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615058125180,"sku":"9780816642922","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780816642922_dd4b5a56-51eb-4363-a7ea-c8814068b5f4.jpg?v=1746711370","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/film-nation-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}