Hollywood's Long Civil War

ISBN-13: 9781800794221 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 282 str.

Malcolm Scott

Opis

This book explores Hollywood's concern with unresolved racial tensions from the antebellum era to the Civil Rights movement. All major films about the Civil War are discussed, including The Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind, as well as considering the film industry's depiction of African Americans on screen.

Spis treści

Contents: Prologue - The Silent War - Griffith's Fame and Shame - The War between Wars - Windfall - Peripheries of War - The Civil War Western - Responses to Challenge - Civil Rights and Cinema - New Wave - Prehistory - Epilogue.

O autorze

Malcolm Scott is an Emeritus Professor of French at the University of St Andrews, where he was Head of French and of the School of Modern Languages as well as the founder of the St Andrews Institute of European Cultural Identity Studies. A member of the Bordeaux-based International Society for François Mauriac Studies, his numerous previous books include several on Mauriac's literary and political writings, as well as a major contribution to the recent award-winning Dictionnaire Mauriac. He was also appointed Chevalier des Palmes Académiques «for service to French culture». His lifelong interest in American film has also led to a study of Frank Capra and to this present book.