| Description |
xxv, 244 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Summary |
"This definitive interdisciplinary collection by leading scholars probes the theoretical and historical contexts of films made about the American past from silent film to the present. The book offers a fresh assessment of studio era historical filmmaking and its legacy across a range of genres."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Film and history: artifact and experience / Warren I. Susman -- Film history, reconstruction, and southern legendary history in The Birth of a Nation / David Culbert -- The Hollywood Western, the movement-image, and making history / Marcia Landy -- Ripping the portieres at the seams: lessons from Streetcar on Gone with the Wind / Susan Courtney -- Hollywood about Hollywood: genre as historiography / Robert Sklar -- Some Like it Hot and the virtues of not taking history too seriously / David Eldridge -- Vico's age of heroes and the age of men in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance / Mark W. Roche, Vittorio Hosle -- Anatomy of a shipwreck: Warner Bros., The White House and the celluloid sinking of PT 109 / Nicholas J. Cull -- The long road of women's memory: Fred Zinnemann's Julia / J.E. Smyth -- Inventing historical truth on the silver screen / Robert Rosenstone -- 'This is not America, this is Los Angeles': crime, space, and history in the City of Angels / Ian Scott -- Between nostalgia and regret: strategies of historical disruption from Douglas Sirk to Mad Men / Vera Dika. |
| 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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| Added Author |
Smyth, J. E., 1977-
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| ISBN |
9780230230934 (pbk.) |
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0230230938 (pbk.) |
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9780230230927 (hardback) |
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023023092X (hardback) |
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