Hollywood and the American historical film / edited by J.E. Smyth.

"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"--Pro...

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Other Authors: Smyth, J. E., 1977-
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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MSU: This book was selected in recognition of MSU Libraries Student Employee, Mukonjay Barkons, Class of 2013
Physical Description:xxv, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Format: Book

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505 8 |a Machine generated contents note: -- 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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