I am pleased to announce that Dr Jenny Barrett (Edge Hill University) will present a paper as part of the Centre for World Cinemas-Leverhulme Trust research seminar series 'Film and History: the Western'.
In conjunction with the Centre for World Cinemas' 2013/14 research seminar series titled 'History and Film', Dr Lee Broughton (Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in World Cinemas) is convening a parallel series titled 'Film and History: the Western'.
Dr Jenny Barrett will present the first seminar in the series on 23 October 2013 in Parkinson Building SR 1.08, University of Leeds, at 4pm.
Jenny's lecture is titled 'Courage, Goodness and Mercy: The Memorialisation of the American Civil War in Hollywood Film'.
Abstract:
A recycling of motifs - narrative, visual and musical - can be found in the Hollywood historical film which contributes to what Alison Landberg calls a 'prosthetic memory,' the memory of an historical event that has been accrued through the consumption of mass media texts. This manufacturing of memory for those who did not witness the historical event is found no more evidently than in the American Civil War film. Motifs and narrative conventions in these films come to stand in as tangible manifestations of memory of this significant event. Over the course of more than a century of filmmaking, a consensus memory of the Civil War has emerged comprising of sectional iconography, narrative clichés, heroic deeds and accepted mythologies about the war's causes. This lecture argues that this consensus memory operates as an ideological project working to educate American viewers as to their 'natural,' national identity. It argues that one key film, 'The Beguiled' (Don Siegel, 1971), works to disrupt the consensus memory of the Civil War by presenting fully rounded, primary players in the war narrative who own entirely Un-American values and behaviours.
All welcome!
Dr Lee Broughton
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow
Centre for World Cinemas
University of Leeds
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