American history/American film : interpreting the Hollywood image
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American history/American film : interpreting the Hollywood image
（Bloomsbury academic collections, . Film studies . world cinema）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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"ISBN: Set: 9781474293136"--T.p. verso
Facsimile of edition published: New York : Continuum, 1988
Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-297) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this pioneering work, sixteen historians analyse individual films for deeper insight into US institutions, values and lifestyles. Linking all of the essays is the belief that film holds much of value for the historian seeking to understand and interpret American history and culture. This title will be equally valuable for students and scholars in history using film for analysis as well as film students and scholars exploring the way social and historical circumstances are reflected and represented in film.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr
Introduction
1. The New Woman and Twenties America: Way Down East (1920) June Sochen
2. The Great War Viewed From the Twenties: The Big Parade (1925) Michael T. Isenberg
3. 'Race Movies' as Voices of the Black Bourgeoisie: The Scar of Shame (1927) Thomas Cripps
4. Bullets, Beer and the Hays Office: Public Enemy (1931) Garth Jowett
5. Will Rogers and the Relevance of Nostalgia: Steamboat 'Round the Bend (1935) Peter C. Rollins
6. A Reaffirmation of the American Ideals: Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) John E. O'Connor
7. Our Awkward Ally: Mission to Moscow (1943) David Culbert
8. The Uncertain Peace: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Martin A. Jackson
9. Empire to the West: Red River (1948) Robert Sklar
10. An American Cold Warrior: Viva Zapata! (1952) Paul J. Vanderwood
11. The Age of Conspiracy and Conformity: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Stuart Samuels
12. The Pentagon and Hollywood: Dr Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Lawrence Suid
13. Hollywood, Nihilism and the Youth Culture of the Sixties: Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Lawrence L. Murray
14. The Blue Collar Ethnic in Bicentennial America: Rocky (1976) Daniel J. Leab
15. Fragments of War: Platoon (1986) Lawrence W. Lichty and Raymond L. Carroll
Notes on Contributors
Films
Further Reading
Index
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