MARC record from Internet Archive

LEADER: 06805cam 2200973 a 4500
001 ocm25202002
003 OCoLC
005 20160204013352.0
008 920106s1992 mauaf 000 0 eng
010 $a 92002912
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$dEL$$dBAKER$dNLGGC$dBTCTA$dYDXCP$dLF8$dUBC$dRPY$dP4I$dGEBAY$dBDX$dGBVCP$dOCLCO$dOCLCF$dOCLCO$dOCLCQ$dOCLCO$dDEBBG$dOCLCO
019 $a150803627
020 $a0674795865$q(alk. paper)
020 $a9780674795860$q(alk. paper)
020 $a0674795873$q(pbk.)
020 $a9780674795877$q(pbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)25202002$z(OCoLC)150803627
050 00 $aPN1995.9.H5$bV54 1992
082 00 $a791.43/658$220
084 $a24.32$2bcl
084 $a17.97$2bcl
084 $a18.06$2bcl
084 $a24.34$2bcl
084 $a7,26$2ssgn
084 $aHU 9023$2rvk
100 1 $aVidal, Gore,$d1925-2012.
245 10 $aScreening history /$cGore Vidal.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c1992.
300 $ax, 96 pages, [8] pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aWilliam E. Massey Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization ;$v1991
505 0 $aThe prince and the pauper -- Fire over England -- Lincoln.
520 $aGore Vidal saw his first talking picture in 1929 when he was four years old. At age ten, the film A Midsummer Night's Dream whetted his appetite for all of Shakespeare's plays, and Mickey Rooney's Puck inspired his early fantasy about becoming an actor. Yet it was movies about history, albeit history as brought to life on the silver screen, that he remembers most vividly from his youth. Movies such as Roman Scandals, The Prince and the Pauper, and Fire Over England, in his words, "opened for me that door to the past where I have spent so much of my life-long present." Author of Burr, Lincoln, and other best-selling novels chronicling our experience, Vidal shows how history and fiction blend in the private and public worlds of his generation. In Screening History, he intertwines fond recollections of films savored in the movie palaces of his Washington, D.C., boyhood with strands of autobiography and trenchant observations about American politics. Never before has Vidal--a scion of one of our oldest political families--revealed so much about his own life or written with such marvelous immediacy about the real and imagined forces that have shaped America in the twentieth century. We see Vidal witnessing history as his grandfather is sworn in for a fourth Senate term during the Depression; we see him making history as a young airman of ten flying a Hammond Y-1 under the watchful eye of his father, FDR's Director of Aviation; and we journey back with him to America in the 1930s and 1940s, to theaters with names like the Belasco and the Metropolitan where the history screened for the nation's moviegoers often turned reality into fantasy, or into downright propaganda. Screening History is rich with anecdotes about Vidal's eminent family and shrewd insights about prominent figures known and observed. It captures the hold that movies have had on the American imagination and the mark they left on the mind of a youngster who grew up to become one of our best-known and most controversial literary figures. At times poignant, often bitingly funny, this is Gore Vidal at his best, inscribing his views on the American political scene from FDR to George Bush and on issues from the writing of history to the inability of movies to set history straight. The rapier wit for which he is legend animates every page.
530 $aAlso issued online.
650 0 $aHistorical films$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aMotion pictures$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aMotion pictures$xMiscellanea.
650 4 $aPeli culas cinematogra ficas$xFilosofi a.
650 7 $aHistorical films.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00958120
650 7 $aMotion pictures.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01027285
650 7 $aMotion pictures$xPhilosophy.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01027348
650 17 $aHistorische films.$2gtt
650 07 $aHistorischer Film.$2swd
650 07 $aHistorischer Film.$0(DE-588)4160024-1$2gnd
653 0 $aHistorical films$aHistory and criticism
653 0 $aMotion pictures$aMiscellanea
653 0 $aMotion pictures$aPhilosophy
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
655 7 $aMiscellanea.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423854
776 08 $iOnline version:$aVidal, Gore, 1925-$tScreening history.$dCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992$w(OCoLC)644026044
830 0 $aWilliam E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization ;$v1991.
938 $aBaker & Taylor$bBKTY$c14.95$d14.95$i0674795865$n0002117100$sactive
938 $aBrodart$bBROD$n44675194$c$14.95
938 $aBaker and Taylor$bBTCP$n92002912$c$14.95
938 $aYBP Library Services$bYANK$n537759
952 $a25202002$zDLC$dURI$hFull$iLCC$kDDC$nSummary$tContents$u20150820
952 $a126347519$zMMX$bMUSEUM OF MODERN ART, THE$hFull$iLCC$kDDC$u20100716
952 $a486177845$zN15$bNEW YORK UNIV, GROUP BATCHLOAD$hFull$iLCC$kDDC$u20100709
952 $a150914453$zRPY$bAMERICAN ACAD IN ROME$hOther$u20100719
952 $a649414889$zAI#$bAMERICAN JEWISH UNIV$hFull$iLCC$kDDC$u20100721
952 $a240055682$zHLS$bHARVARD UNIV, HARVARD COL LIBR$dURI$hLess-than-full batch$iLCC$kDDC$u20120804
952 $a240055683$zHLS$bHARVARD UNIV, HARVARD COL LIBR$dURI$hLess-than-full batch$iLCC$kDDC$u20120804
952 $a240711636$zHLS$bHARVARD UNIV, HARVARD COL LIBR$dURI$hLess-than-full batch$iLCC$kDDC$u20120804
952 $a486177820$zN15$bNEW YORK UNIV, GROUP BATCHLOAD$hFull$iLCC$kDDC$u20100727
952 $a176508305$zPUL$bPRINCETON UNIV$hFull$iLCC$kDDC$u20100702
952 $a370332286$zUBY$bBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIV LIBR$dURI$hFull$iLCC$kDDC$u20130129
952 $a614382103$zHHG$bHARVARD UNIV, HOUGHTON LIBR$dURI$hLess-than-full batch$iLCC$kDDC$u20120804
952 $a131335598$zJTC$bSHASTA PUB LIBR$hFull$iLCC$kDDC$u20100724
952 $a228539127$zHRA$bHARVARD UNIV, ARCHIVES$dURI$hLess-than-full batch$iLCC$kDDC$u20120804
952 $a188729297$zPAU$bUNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA$hFull$iLCC$kDDC$u20150328
952 $a476873842$zTEU$bTEMPLE UNIV$hFull$u20100722
952 $a685832187$zYUS$bYALE UNIV LIBR$hFull$iLCC$kDDC$u20150210
029 1 $aAU@$b000008721213
029 1 $aGBVCP$b11281722X
029 1 $aGEBAY$b1778883
029 1 $aHEBIS$b026202794
029 1 $aLQU$b328905
029 1 $aNZ1$b4283951
029 1 $aYDXCP$b537759
029 1 $aDEBBG$bBV005894889
994 $aZ0$bPMR
948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN PMR - 1047 OTHER HOLDINGS