Descript |
xxv, 244 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm. |
Contents |
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.Hosle 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 Further Reading |
ISBN |
9780230230934 (pbk.) |
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9780230230927 (hbk.) |
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