| Description |
vii, 344 pages ; 24 cm. |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
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SUNY series, Horizons of cinema |
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SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Strategic patriotic memories / William H. Epstein -- Performers and showmen. Empty words : Houdini and Houdini / Murray Pomerance ; Woody Guthrie, warts and all : the biopic in the new American cinema of the 1970s / Dennis Bingham ; "Weird Andy Hardy" : Ed Wood and American national identity / Constanttne Verevis -- Hot and cold warriors. Topography and typology : Wyatt Earp and the West / Homer B. Pettey ; Patton (1970) : celebrating the un-American national hero / R. Barton Palmer ; J. Edgar: Eastwood's man of mystery / Douglas McFarland -- Artists and writers. Nationalizing abject American artists : Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Jean-Michel Basquiat / Julie Codell ; Adapting Plathology : Sylvia (2003) / Claire Perkins ; "The dark lady of American photography" : Steven Shainberg's Fur : an imaginary portrait of Diane Arbus (2006) / Monika Pietrzak-Franger -- Emancipators and martyrs. The great white hope (1970) : a forgotten biopic? / James Burns, Abel A. Bartley ; Kinsey : an inquiry into American sexual identity / Gabrtele Linke ; Toward a new LGBT biopic : politics and reflexivity in Gus Van Sant's Milk (2008) / Julia G. Erhart ; Spielberg's Lincoln : memorializing emancipation / R. Barton Palmer -- Afterword: The making of Americans / William H. Epstein. |
| Subject |
Biographical films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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National characteristics, American, in motion pictures.
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United States -- In motion pictures.
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Biographical films. (OCoLC)fst00832143
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Motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01027285
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National characteristics, American, in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01033351
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Epstein, William H., editor.
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Palmer, R. Barton, 1946- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781438460796 hardcover alkaline paper |
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1438460791 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9781438460819 electronic book |
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