Cinema and Counter-History

Marcia Landy is Distinguished Professor of English/Film Studies, with a Secondary Appointment in French and Italian, at University of Pittsburgh. She is author of Stardom, Italian Style: Screen Performance and Personality in Italian Cinema (IUP, 2008).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Crisis of the Movement-Image and Counter-history2. History Growling at the Door: Horror and Naturalism3. Comedy, Theatricality, and Counter-history4. Minoritarian Cinematic Forms as Counter-history5. Memory, the Powers of the False, and BecomingEpilogueBibliographyIndex

"Once again, Marcia Landy impressively, masterfully, combines her well-known talents for broad critical reflection for trenchant close reading' of individual films to produce ground-breaking theorization of cinema's powers to both make and remake historical meaning and to counter dominant cultural representations.  A far-reaching study with major insights at every turn."—Dana Polan, New York University"A very ambitious book! The range of Marcia Landy's scholarship and knowledge of film is impressive."—Robert Burgoyne, author of Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History"Time, memory, and representation are the key themes of Landy's volume, which is at once accessible, theoretical, and playful, dealing with cinema in all its forms. This dazzling display of virtuosity is a major work in Landy's long career. . . . Essential."—Choice