Race and nation in Glory -- Native America, Thunderheart, and the national imaginary -- National identity, gender identity, and the rescue fantasy in Born on the Fourth of July -- Modernism and the narrative of nation in JFK -- Prosthetic memory/national memory: Forrest Gump -- The columbian exchange: Pocahontas and The new world -- Homeland or promised land?: the ethnic construction of nation in Gangs of New York -- Haunting in the war film: Flags of our fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima -- Trauma and history in United 93 and World Trade Center.
