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In the wake
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The never-ending Brief Encounter
In the disastrous 1974 remake of Brief Encounter, almost every aspect goes wrong. The casting of glamorous international stars reduces the sense of ordinary people facing emotional conflict, and the structural change also undermines this. The short gay take on the original, Flames of Passion, offered a wordless version, which found some festival favour but not general release.
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Editor:
Paul Grainge
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Paul Grainge
Introduction
Memory and popular film
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book considers memory as a specific framework for the study of popular film, intervening in growing debates about the status and function of memory in cultural life and discourse. It examines the relationship between official and popular history and the constitution of memory narratives in and around the production and consumption of American cinema. The book explores the political stakes of cinematic discourse in its production of national memory. It also examines the discursive and institutional apparatus that has come to support the memory of Classic Hollywood in British cultural life. The book also considers both the presence of music and colour in nostalgia films of the 1990s and the impact of digital and video technologies on the representational determinants of mediated memory.