Screening the Past

Pam Cook is Professor of European Film and Media at the University of Southampton. She is co-editor of The Cinema Book (BFI, 1999), and her many publications on film include Fashioning the Nation: Costume and Identity in British Cinema (BFI, 1996) and I Know Where I'm Going! (BFI, 2002)

Rethinking Nostalgia: In the Mood for Love and Far from Heaven.Section 1: Reviewing the Past: History, Gender and Genrec Introduction. Duplicity in Mildred Pierce. Women and the Western. The Pleasures and Perils of Exploitation Films. Section 2: History and Memory in Popular British Cinema. Introduction. Melodrama and the Women's Picture. Mandy: Daughter of Transition. Memory in British Cinema: Brief Encounters Section 3: Stars, Iconoclasm and Identification. Introduction. Stars and Politics. The Gold Diggers. No Fixed Address: The Women's Picture from Outrage to Blue Steel Section 4: Martin Scorsese and Post-classical Nostalgia. Introduction. Masculinity in Crisis? The Last Temptation of Christ. Scorsese's Masquerade . The Age of Innocence Section 5: Reinventing the Past: Costume and Identity. Introduction, Fashion and Sexual Display in 1950s Hollywood. Replicating the Past: Memory and History in Dance with a Stranger. Fictions of Identity: Style, Mimicry and Gender in the Films of Kathryn Bigelow