Hollywood and the American Historical Film
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Hollywood and the American Historical Film

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
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Hollywood and the American Historical Film

About this book

How do Hollywood filmmakers construct and interpret American history? Is film's visual historical language inherently different from the traditions of written history? This definitive collection of essays by leading scholars probes the theoretical and historical contexts of films made about the American past - from the silent era to the present. Exploring issues deeply connected with historical filmmaking, from historiography to censorship, to race, gender, and sexuality, the book discusses a wide range of films and genres- including classics such as The Virginian, Gone with the Wind and Citizen Kane. This collection is essential reading for anyone interested in studying, or researching American history and film. Includes essays by Susan Courtney, David Culbert, Nicholas J. Cull, Vera Dika, David Eldridge, Vittorio Hösle, Marcia Landy, Mark W. Roche, Robert Rosenstone, Ian Scott, Robert Sklar, J.E. Smyth, and Warren I. Susman.

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Information

Publisher
Red Globe Press
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780230230934
eBook ISBN
9780230357891
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Historiography
Index
History
10 
Film 
and 
History: 
Artifact 
and 
Experience
Notes
1. 
This 
paper 
was 
originally 
presented 
at 
the 
Astoria 
Foundation 
in 
New 
York 
in 
November 
1983. 
It 
was 
then 
reprinted 
for 
Film 
and 
History
(1985) 
and 
is 
reprinted 
here 
with 
permission 
of 
the 
editor.
2. 
Henri 
LeFebvre 
(1901–91), 
French 
sociologist, 
wrote 
The 
Critique 
of 
Everyday 
Life
(1947) 
and 
The 
Production 
of 
Space
(1974), 
among 
other 
works.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Film and History: Artifact and Experience
  10. 2 Film History, Reconstruction, and Southern Legendary History in The Birth of a Nation
  11. 3 The Hollywood Western, the Movement-Image, and Making History
  12. 4 Ripping the Portieres at the Seams: Lessons from Streetcar on Gone with the Wind
  13. 5 Hollywood about Hollywood: Genre as Historiography
  14. 6 Some Like It Hot and the Virtues of Not Taking History Too Seriously
  15. 7 Vico's Age of Heroes and the Age of Men in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  16. 8 Anatomy of a Shipwreck: Warner Bros., the White House, and the Celluloid Sinking of PT 109
  17. 9 The Long Road of Women's Memory: Fred Zinnemann's Julia
  18. 10 Inventing Historical Truth on the Silver Screen
  19. 11 “This Is Not America: This Is Los Angeles”: Crime, Space, and History in the City of Angels
  20. 12 Between Nostalgia and Regret: Strategies of Historical Disruption from Douglas Sirk to Mad Men
  21. Further Reading
  22. Index