| Edition |
Revised edition. |
| Description |
x, 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreward / Ray B. Browne -- Introduction / Peter C. Rollins -- Cultural history written with lightning: The significance of The birth of a nation (1915) / Everett Carter -- Problems in film history: How Fox innovated sound / Douglas Gomery -- Ideology and film rhetoric: Three documentaries of the New Deal era (1936-1941) / Peter Rollins -- Fighting words: City lights (1931), Modern times (1936), and The great dictator (1940) / Ira S. Jaffe -- The grapes of wrath (1940): Thematic emphasis through visual style / Vivian C. Sobchack -- History with lightning: The forgotten film Wilson (1944) / Thomas Knock -- The Negro soldier (1944): Film propaganda in black and white / Thomas Cripps and David Culbert -- The snake pit (1948): The sexist nature of sanity / Leslie Fishbein -- Ambivalence as a theme in On the waterfront (1954): An interdisciplinary approach to film study / Kenneth R. Hey -- Dr. Strangelove (1964): Nightmare comedy and the ideology of liberal consensus / Charles Maland -- A test of American film censorship: Who's afraid of Virgina Woolf? (1966) / Leonard J. Leff -- Apocalypse now (1979): Joseph Conrad and the television war / William M. Hagen -- Film, television, and American studies: A 1998 update / Peter Rollins. |
| Subject |
Historical films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Motion pictures and history.
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Historical films. (OCoLC)fst00958120
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Motion pictures and history. (OCoLC)fst01027408
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Historical films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Rollins, Peter C.
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| ISBN |
0813109515 (alk. paper) |
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9780813109510 (alk. paper) |
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