Palmer, William J.,  1943- <br/><br/>
The films of the eighties :  a social history / 
William J. Palmer. 
 - Carbondale :  Southern Illinois University Press,  �1993. 
 - 1 online resource (xv, 335 pages) :  illustrations 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-323) and index. 
<br/><br/>The holograph of history -- The Vietnam War as film text -- The "coming home" films -- The terrorism film texts -- The nuclear war film texts -- From the "evil empire" to Glasnost -- The feminist farm crisis and other neoconservative feminist texts -- The yuppie texts -- Film in the holograph of new history. 
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<br/><br/> Annotation.  In this remarkable sequel to his Films of the Seventies: A Social History, William J. Palmer examines more than three hundred films as texts that represent, revise, parody, comment upon, and generate discussion about major events, issues, and social trends of the eighties. Palmer defines the dialectic between film art and social history, taking as his theoretical model the "holograph of history" that originated from the New Historicist theories of Hayden White and Dominick LaCapra. Combining the interests and methodologies of social history and film criticism, Palmer contends that film is a socially conscious interpreter and commentator upon the issues of contemporary social history. In the eighties, such issues included the war in Vietnam, the preservation of the American farm, terrorism, nuclear holocaust, changes in Soviet-American relations, neoconservative feminism, and yuppies. Among the films Palmer examines are Platoon, The Killing Fields, The River, Out of Africa, Little Drummer Girl, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Silkwood, The Day After, Red Dawn, Moscow on the Hudson, Troop Beverly Hills, and Fatal Attraction. Utilizing the principles of New Historicism, Palmer demonstrates that film can analyze and critique history as well as present it. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>[S.l.] : <br/>HathiTrust Digital Library, <br/>2010. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0585197563 9780585197562 0809320290 9780809320295 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States.<br/>Cin�ema--Aspect social--�Etats-Unis.<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE--Media Studies.<br/>Motion pictures--Social aspects.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1995.9.S6  / P33 1993eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>302.23/43/097309048