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Books boeken william palmer southern illinois university press paperback augustus 1995: 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.
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