J. E. Smyth

Hollywood and the American Historical Film

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL / Macmillan Education
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9780230230934
• ISBN-10: 0230230938
• Artikelnr.: 33139797

Autorenporträt

J.E. SMYTH is Assistant Professor of History and Comparative American Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
J.E.Smyth Film and History: Artefact and Experience
W.Susman Film History, Reconstruction and Southern Legendary History in The Birth of a Nation (1915)
D.Culbert The Hollywood Western, the Movement-Image and Making History
M.Landy Ripping the Portieres at the Seams: Lessons from A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) on Gone with the Wind (1939)
S.Courtney Hollywood About Hollywood: Genre as Historiography
R.Sklar Some Like it Hot (1959) and The Virtues of Not Taking History Too Seriously
D.Eldridge Vico's Age of Heroes and the Age of Men in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
M.Roche & V.Hösle Anatomy of a Shipwreck: Warner Bros., The White House and the Celluloid Sinking of PT 109 (1963)
N.J.Cull The Long Road of Women's Memory: Fred Zinnemann's Julia (1977)
J.E.Smyth Inventing Historical Truth on the Silver Screen
R.Rosenstone 'This is not America
this is Los Angeles': Crime, Space and History in the City of Angels
I.Scott Between Nostalgia and Regret: Strategies of Historical Disruption from Douglas Sirk to Mad Men
V.Dika Further Reading.