| Description |
viii, 296 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [264]-289) and index. |
| Contents |
Exorcising the demons within : gender, race, and the problem of evil in American history and cinema -- Redeeming the south, redeeming the nation : representations of Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and Reconstruction in American film, television, and historical scholarship -- Envisioning and re-visioning America : Hollywood westerns and engaging the American past -- Historicizing triumphs and trajedies in the American west : the Hollywood western as cultural text in recent American history -- Immigration, the American dream, and the problem of the Irish American experience -- The European American and Mexican American immigration experience : the problem of narrative in American social history -- Beyond Dallas : history, narrative, and the struggle for meaning in the Kennedy assassination -- "We are alive in hell" : finding historical meaning and significance in 9/11. |
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United States -- In motion pictures.
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National characteristics, American, in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
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Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History.
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| ISBN |
9780415802208 (pbk.) |
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0415802202 (pbk.) |
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9780415802192 (hbk.) |
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0415802199 (hbk.) |
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