An edition of Hollywood and the American historical film
(2011)
Hollywood and the American historical film
by J. E. Smyth
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"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"--
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Hollywood and the American historical film
2011, Palgrave Macmillan
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Introduction / J.E. Smyth
Film and History: Artefact and Experience / W. Susman
Film History, Reconstruction and Southern Legendary History in The Birth of a Nation (1915) / D. Culbert
The Hollywood Western, the Movement-Image and Making History / M. Landy
Ripping the Portieres at the Seams: Lessons from A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) on Gone with the Wind (1939) / S. Courtney
Hollywood About Hollywood: Genre as Historiography / R. Sklar
Some Like it Hot (1959) and The Virtues of Not Taking History Too Seriously / D. Eldridge
Vico's Age of Heroes and the Age of Men in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) / M. Roche and V. Hösle
Anatomy of a Shipwreck: Warner Bros., The White House and the Celluloid Sinking of PT 109 (1963) / N.J. Cull
The Long Road of Women's Memory: Fred Zinnemann's Julia (1977) / J.E. Smyth
Inventing Historical Truth on the Silver Screen / R. Rosenstone
'This is not America, this is Los Angeles': Crime, Space and History in the City of Angels / I. Scott
Between Nostalgia and Regret: Strategies of Historical Disruption from Douglas Sirk to Mad Men / V. Dika.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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