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Author Girgus, Sam B., 1941-

Title America on film : modernism, documentary, and a changing America / Sam B. Girgus.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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 Moore Stacks  PN1995.9.U64 G57 2002    Available  ---
Description xi, 226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-218) and index.
Contents Introduction : film and modernism in America : documentary and a democratic aesthetic -- pt. 1. Embodying a new race for America : the question of American hope in Mississippi Masala and Lone Star. Embodying a new race for America : Mississippi Masala ; Lone Star : an archeology of American culture and the American psyche -- pt. 2. Great fights for the century. Raging bull : revisioning the body, soul, and cinema ; The black gladiator and the Spartacus syndrome : race, redemption, and the ring -- pt. 3. The image and the word : literature and film. "Fresh starts" : Bugsy, The great Gatsby, and the American dream ; Imaging masochism and the politics of pain : "facing" the word in the cinetext of Seize the day -- pt. 4. Documentary and fiction. Documenting the body in Modern times : love, play, and repression in Chaplin's silent classic ; Spike Lee, Denzel Washington, and the rebirth of Malcolm X : cinetext for a black American dream.
Subject United States -- In motion pictures.
United States.
Historical films -- United States -- History and criticism.
Historical films.
Biographical films -- United States -- History and criticism.
Biographical films.
ISBN 0521009316 paperback