This definitive interdisciplinary collection by leading scholars probes the theoretical and historical contexts of films made about the American past, fromsilent film to the present. The book offers a fresh assessment of studio era historical filmmaking and its legacy across a range of genres. J.E. SMYTH is Assistant 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', which won the Association of American Publishers' Prose Award for Media and Cultural Studies. INDICE: 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: Strategiesof Historical Disruption from Douglas Sirk to 'Mad Men'; 'V.Dika' - Further Reading -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-23092-7
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 12/08/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés