Hollywood's History Films (Cinema and Society)
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: June 27, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781845110604
Subjects: Films, cinema; Motion Picture Industry; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism; Historical films; History and criticism; United States
First sentence: Audiences in 1957 generally ignored the release of Irwin Allen's The Story of Mankind, and film historians have continued to do so, with some justification given its absurd plot device of a celestial High Tribunal summoned to determine whether or not to save humanity from a final nuclear apocalypse.