Hollywood and the American Historical Film

ISBN-13: 9780230230927 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 272 str.

J. E. Smyth

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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: Strategies of Historical Disruption from Douglas Sirk to Mad Men; V.Dika Further Reading.

O autorze

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.