Memory and Popular Film Goodreads Choice Award for Fantasy and Nominee for Favorite Book (2011) and Nominee for Best of the Best (2018) Your Republic Is Calling You

Your Republic Is Calling You is an emotionally taut

Navigating his way through the challenges of growing up

MacDonald offers the reader suggestions for finding his or her own performance style

And it's not the happy-go-lucky ones who thrive-it's the prudent and persistent who flourish through the years

with a particular focus on political and economic history

Memory and Popular Film Goodreads Choice Award for Fantasy and Nominee for Favorite Book (2011) and Nominee for Best of the Best (2018) Your Republic Is Calling YouOne of the first books to put memory at the centre of analysis when exploring the relationship between film culture and the past. Provides a sustained, interdisciplinary perspective on memory and film from early cinema to the present, drawing from film studies, American studies and cultural studies. Adopts a resolutely cultural perspective and unlike psychoanalytic or formalist approaches to memory, explores questions of culture, power and identity.