| Description |
x, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cultural History Written with Lightning: The Significance of The Birth of a Nation (1915) / Everett Carter -- Problems in Film History: How Fox Innovated Sound / Douglas Gomery -- Ideology and Film Rhetoric: Three Documentaries of the New Deal Era (1936-1941) / Peter C. Rollins -- Fighting Words: City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936), and The Great Dictator (1940) Ira S. Jaffe -- The Grapes of Wrath (1940): Thematic Emphasis through Visual Style / Vivian C. Sobchack -- History with Lightning: The Forgotten Film Wilson (1944) / Thomas J. Knock -- The Negro Soldier (1944): Film Propaganda in Black and White / Thomas Cripps and David Culbert -- The Snake Pit (1984): The Sexist Nature of Sanity / Leslie Fishbein -- Ambivalence as a Theme in On the Waterfront (1954): An Interdisciplinary Approach to Film Study / Kenneth R. Hey -- Dr. Strangelove (1964): Nightmare Comedy and the Ideology of Liberal Consensus / Charles Maland -- A Test of American Film Censorship: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) / Leonard J. Leff -- Apocalypse Now (1979): Joseph Conrad and the Television War / William M. Hagen -- Film, Television, and American Studies / Peter C. Rollins |
| Subject |
Historical films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Historical films. |
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United States. |
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Motion pictures and history.
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Motion pictures and history. |
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Motion picture plays, American -- History and criticism.
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Motion picture plays, American. |
| Added Author |
Rollins, Peter C.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Hollywood as historian. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c1983 (OCoLC)558240218 |
| ISBN |
0813114861 : $26.00 |
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9780813114866 |
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0813101549 paperback |
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9780813101545 paperback |
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