Dear ListServ Administrator: Please post this to Screen-L. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Heather Skinner, Publicist University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 [log in to unmask] v * 612-627-1932 f * 612-627-1980 http://www.upress.umn.edu From The New World to United 93, analyzing films that establish an alternative history of the United States Please let me know if you would like a review copy. FILM NATION: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History, Revised Edition By Robert Burgoyne University of Minnesota Press | 256 pages | 2010 ISBN 978-0-8166-4292-2| paperback| $22.50 ISBN 978-0-8166-4291-5| hardcover | $67.50 Film Nation analyzes films that give shape to the counternarrative that has emerged since 9/11-one that challenges the traditional myths of the American nation-state. Robert Burgoyne provides innovative readings of attempts by such directors as Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, and Oliver Stone to visualize historical events that have acquired a mythical aura in order to open up the past to the contemporary moment. "Film Nation rewards the reader with a continuous flow of stimulating ideas about how to discuss the content of recent history films." -Journal of American History Robert Burgoyne is professor and chair of film studies, University of St. Andrews. For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/B/burgoyne_film.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/mediaalert.html Heather Skinner, Publicist University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 [log in to unmask] v * 612-627-1932 f * 612-627-1980 http://www.upress.umn.edu ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu