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Trevor B. McCrisken and Andrew PepperPublication Details
BookRutgers University Press2005Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN1995.9.H5 M43 2005 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Both authoritative and engaging, American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film is the first book to comprehensively explore the post?cold war period of filmmaking, and to navigate the complex ways that film mediates history?sometimes challenging or questioning, but more frequently reaffirming traditional interpretations. Structured by historical periods, chapters cover significant events and eras such as the American Revolution, slavery and the Civil War, World War II, the sixties and seventies, civil rights and black nationalism, the Vietnam War, and post?cold war global conflicts. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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Contents
- Lessons from Hollywood’s American Revolution (Revolution ; The Patriot)
- Rattling the chains of history : Steven Spielberg’s Amistad and "telling everyone’s story" (Roots ; Amistad)
- Hollywood’s Civil War dilemma : to imagine or unravel the nation? (Gettysburg ; Glory ; Ride with the devil ; Cold Mountain)
- Saving the good war : Hollywood and World War II in the post-Cold War world (Saving Private Ryan ; The thin red line ; U-571 ; Pearl Harbor) - - Oliver Stone and the decade of trauma (Platoon ; Born on the fourth of July ; Heaven and Earth ; JFK ; Nixon)
- From civil rights to black nationalism : Hollywood v. black America? (Panther ; Mississippi burning ; The hurricane ; Malcolm X ; Ali)
- Hollywood’s post-Cold War history : the "righteousness" of American interventionism (Three kings ; Black Hawk down)
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- 0813536219
- 0813536200
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