This book provides a detailed and engaging account of how Hollywood cinema has represented and remembered the Sixties. From late 1970s hippie musicals such as Hair and The Rose through to recent civil rights portrayals The Help and Lee Daniels The Butler, Oliver Gruner explores the ways in which films have engaged with broad debates on America s recent past. Drawing on extensive archival research, he traces production history and script development, showing how a group of politically engaged filmmakers sought to offer resonant contributions to public memory. Situating Hollywood...
This book provides a detailed and engaging account of how Hollywood cinema has represented and remembered the Sixties. From late 1970s hippie musicals...
Brings together essays from an international roster of scholars to provide new critical perspectives on Hollywood's relationships between historical films, Southern history, identity, and the portrayal of Jim Crow-era segregation. The collection analyzes films through the lens of religion, politics, race, sex, and class.
Brings together essays from an international roster of scholars to provide new critical perspectives on Hollywood's relationships between historical f...
