Memory And Nostalgia In Cinema
'Screening The Past' engages with current debates about the role of cinema in mediating history through memory and nostalgia. The work of contemporary directors such as Martin Scorsese, Kathryn Bigelow, Todd Haynes and Wong Kar-wai is used to examine the different ways they deploy creative processes of memory, arguing that these movies can tell us much about our complex relationship to the past, and about history and identity.
