Hollywood and the American historical film
By: edited by J.E. Smyth
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780230230934
Subjects: Historical films; Motion pictures and history; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism; History and criticism; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction /  J.E. Smyth; title: Film and History: Artefact and Experience /  W. Susman; title: Film History, Reconstruction and Southern Legendary History in The Birth of a Nation (1915) /  D. Culbert; title: The Hollywood Western, the Movement-Image and Making History /  M. Landy; title: Ripping the Portieres at the Seams: Lessons from A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) on Gone with the Wind (1939) /  S. Courtney; title: Hollywood About Hollywood: Genre as Historiography /  R. Sklar; title: Some Like it Hot (1959) and The Virtues of Not Taking History Too Seriously /  D. Eldridge; title: 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; title: Anatomy of a Shipwreck: Warner Bros., The White House and the Celluloid Sinking of PT 109 (1963) /  N.J. Cull; title: The Long Road of Women's Memory: Fred Zinnemann's Julia (1977) /  J.E. Smyth; title: Inventing Historical Truth on the Silver Screen /  R. Rosenstone; title: 'This is not America, this is Los Angeles': Crime, Space and History in the City of Angels /  I. Scott; title: Between Nostalgia and Regret: Strategies of Historical Disruption from Douglas Sirk to Mad Men /  V. Dika.