J. E. Smyth

Hollywood and the American Historical Film (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

How do Hollywood filmmakers construct and interpret American history? Is film's visual historical language inherently different from the traditions of written history? This definitive collection of essays by leading scholars probes the theoretical and historical contexts of films made about the American past - from the silent era to the present.

Exploring issues deeply connected with historical filmmaking, from historiography to censorship, to race, gender, and sexuality, the book discusses a wide range of films and genres- including classics such as The Virginian, Gone with the Wind and Citizen Kane. This collection is essential reading for anyone interested in studying, or researching American history and film.

Includes essays by Susan Courtney, David Culbert, Nicholas J. Cull, Vera Dika, David Eldridge, Vittorio Hösle, Marcia Landy, Mark W. Roche, Robert Rosenstone, Ian Scott, Robert Sklar, J.E. Smyth, and Warren I. Susman.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230357891
• Artikelnr.: 47860011

Autorenporträt

J.E. Smyth is Associate Professor of History and Comparative American Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of Reconstructing American Historical Cinema from Cimarron to Citizen Kane and Edna Ferber's Hollywood: American Fictions of Gender, Race and History.

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.