Reenactment, fantasy, and the paranoia of history: Oliver stone's docudramas

History and Theory

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 64-79

  Sturken, Marita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0002209311     PISSN: 00182656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0018-2656.00031     Document Type: Review

References (24)

1. William Adams, "Still Shooting after All These Years," Mother Jones (January 1988), 49.
2. Allan Sekula, "On the Invention of Photographic Meaning," in Thinking Photography, ed. Victor Burgin (London, 1982), 94.
3. Martin Walker, "US Divided over Lessons of History," Manchester Guardian Weekly (April 23, 1995), 6.
4. Steven Spielberg, quoted on the back cover of Oliver Stone and Richard Boyle, Platoon and Salvador (New York, 1987).
5. Quoted in Richard Corliss, "Platoon," Time (January 26, 1987), 58.
6. Quoted in Dan Goodgame, "How the War was Won," Time (January 26, 1987), 58.
7. Pat Aufderheide, "Good Soldiers," in Seeing Through Movies, ed. Mark Crispin Miller (New York, 1990), 84.
8. For an analysis of this coverage, see Peter Ehrenhaus, "Maligning the Messenger: Oliver Stone as Text," paper delivered at the Speech Communication Association conference, San Diego, November 1996.
9. George Will, "JFK: Paranoid History," Washington Post (December 26, 1991), A23.
10. Barbie Zelizer, Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory (Chicago, 1992), 206.
11. Oliver Stone, quoted in Walter Goodman, "With Fact in Service to Drama," New York Times (January 3, 1996), B2.
12. Michael Rogin, "Body and Soul Murder: JFK," in Media Spectacles, ed. Marjorie Garber, Jann Matlock, and Rebecca Walkowitz (New York, 1993), 9.
13. 14. I examine the history and meaning of the Zapruder film at length in Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering (Berkeley, 1997), Chapter 1.
14. Henry Allen, "Why We Aren't in Vietnam," Washington Post (January 25, 1987), A25 .
15. David Armstrong, "Killing the Messenger," San Francisco Chronicle Image (February 16, 1992), 14.
16. Richard Grenier, "Movie Madness," Times Literary Supplement (January 24, 1992), 16-17.
17. Hayden White, "The Modernist Event," in The Persistence of History: Cinema, Television, and the Modern Event, ed. Vivian Sobchack (New York, 1996), 19.
18. For discussion of cultural paranoia as a methodology for examining the interconnectedness of political and epistemological elements, see Patrick O'Donnell, "Engendering Paranoia in Contemporary Narrative," in National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives, ed. Donald Pease (Durham, N. C. , 1994), 181-204.
19. Dana Polan, Power and Paranoia: History, Narrative and the American Cinema, 1940-1950 (New York, 1986), 15.
20. See Lauren Berlant, "The Theory of Infantile Citizenship," Public Culture 5 (1993), 395-410.
21. See Robert Burgoyne, "Modernism and the Narrative of Nation in JFK. " in The Persistence of History, 113-125.
22. White, "The Modernist Event," 19.
23. Frank Rich, "The Stoning of Stone," New York Times (December 27, 1996), A15.
24. Esquire (November 1991), 93