| Description |
x, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cultural history written with lightening: the significance of The birth of a nation (1915) / Everett Carter -- Problems in film history: how Fox innovated sound / Douglas Gomery -- Ideology and film rhetoric: three documentaries of the New Deal era (1936-1941) / Peter C. Rollins -- Fighting words: City lights (1931), Modern times (1936), and The great dictator (1940) / Ira S. Jaffe -- The grapes of wrath (1940): thematic emphasis through visual style / Vivian C. Sobchack -- History with lightning: the forgotten film Wilson (1944) / Thomas J. Knock -- The Negro soldier (1944): film propaganda in black and white / Thomas Cripps and David Culbert -- The snake pit (1948): the sexist nature of sanity / Leslie Fishbein -- Ambivalence as a theme in On the waterfront (1954): an interdisciplinary approach to film study / Kenneth R. Hey -- Dr. Strangelove (1964): nightmare comedy and the ideology of liberal consensus / Charles Maland -- A test of American film censorship: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) / Leonard J. Leff -- Apocalypse now (1979): Joseph Conrad and the television war / William M. Hagen -- Film, television and American studies / Peter C. Rollins. |
| Subject |
Historical films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Motion pictures and history.
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Motion picture plays, American -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Rollins, Peter C.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Hollywood as historian. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c1983 (OCoLC)558240218 |
| ISBN |
0813114861 |
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9780813114866 |
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0813101549 (paperback) |
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9780813101545 (paperback) |
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