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Lincoln before Lincoln : early cinematic adaptations of the life of America's greatest president / Brian J. Snee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Snee, Brian J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--In motion pictures.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (167 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Despite a wealth of biographical material, relatively few full-length motion pictures have taken Abraham Lincoln and his life as a primary subject. In this detailed study, Brian J. Snee provides a sweeping overview of the cinematic representations of the sixteenth president from the silent era up to Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012).
- Contents:
- Introduction: Lincoln in American memory
- Before the great emancipator: Lincoln before Lincoln
- Great heart: the birth of a nation
- Savior of the union: Abraham Lincoln
- Great commoner: young Mr. Lincoln
- First American: Abe Lincoln in Illinois
- Honest Abe: Sandburg's Lincoln (1974-1976)
- Anti-Lincoln: Gore Vidal's Lincoln.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813167800
- 0813167809
- 9780813167480
- 0813167485
- 9780813167497
- 0813167493
- OCLC:
- 944211559
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