Hollywood and the American historical film / edited by J.E. Smyth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smyth, J. E., 1977-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical films--United States--History and criticism.

Historical films.

United States.

Motion pictures and history.

Physical Description:

xxv, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

"This definitive interdisciplinary collection by leading scholars probes the theoretical and historical contexts of films made about the American past from silent film to the present. The book offers a fresh assessment of studio era historical filmmaking and its legacy across a range of genres"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

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 and 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230230927

023023092X

9780230230934

0230230938

OCLC:

743039851