Trevor McCrisken, Andrew Pepper

American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an analysis of how and why contemporary Hollywood films have sought to mediate American history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474470841
• Artikelnr.: 72307776

Autorenporträt

TREVOR McCRISKEN is lecturer in American politics and international studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of American Exceptionalism and the Legacy of Vietnam: US Foreign Policy Since 1974. ANDREW PEPPER is lecturer in English and American literature at Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author of The Contemporary American Crime Novel.

Inhaltsangabe

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)