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Filmography Of American History

Attribution
Grant Tracey
Publication Details
Book, Greenwood Press, 2002
Availability
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REFERENCE (MAIN) PN1995.9.H5 T73 2002 AVAILABLE
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Description
Containing over 200 films, this resource is ideal for students, teachers, and other viewers who are interested in using films to enhance their knowledge of American historical events and periods. The entries encourage readers to view the film through the lens of history and to consider it within the larger nexus of films listed in that particular chapter. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Author
- Tracey, Grant Annis George, 1960-
Subject
Places in this work
- United States
Contents
- 1. America Before the Civil War
- 2. The Civil War, 1861- 1865
- 3. The Way West and America’s Two Solitudes, 1840- 1900
- 4. The Country versus the City: The Agrarian and Industrial Conflict, 1870-1940
- 5. Immigration and the Challenge to Anglo-Conformity, 1885-1961
- 6. World War One and Goodbye to All That, 1916-1933
- 7. The Great Depression, Documentary Expression, and Representing the Previously Unrepresented, 1929-1967
- 8. World War Two and the Individual versus the Collective, 1933-1950s
- 9. Postwar Alienation and Despair, 1946-1962
- 10. Civil Rights and the Battle for the Inclusion into the American Dream, 1949-Present
- 11. The Atomic Bomb, Cold War Paranoia, and the Expanding National Security State, 1946- Present
- 12. Viet Nam and the Things We Carry, 1954- Present
- 13. The Counterculture Rebellion and the Quest for Authenticity, 1961-Present
- 14. Watergate, Political Cynicism, and Hope, 1972-Present
- App. 1. Multicultural Films
- App. 2. Woman-centered Films
ISBN
- 0313313008
LCCN
- 2001033717
Open Library ID
- /b/OL3946971M