With films ranging from High Noon to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Stanley Kramer (1913-2001) was one of the most successful and prolific director-producers of his day. But even as critics praised his courage in taking on such issues as nuclear war, racism, fascism, and the battle between science and religion, others condemned his work as "emptily pretentious" and "hollow, falsely sentimental, overproduced." Whether Kramer was "one of the great filmmakers of all time" (Kevin Spacey at the Golden Globe Awards) or "one of Hollywood's worst directors" (preeminent film critic Andrew...

This volume is a teacher's guide for teaching with "message," or social problem, films. It will cover key themes and concepts and will also provide an era-by-era overview of significant issues and related films, a tutorial in using film in historical methodology, user guides for key movies, and sample exercises and assignments for classroom use.

This book is a collection of primary source documents and analysis that illustrates the forgotten history of the fight to lower the voting age to eighteen in the twentieth-century United States.

This book is a collection of primary source documents and analysis that illustrates the forgotten history of the fight to lower the voting age to eighteen in the twentieth-century United States.

This book examines the pervading influence of medieval culture, through an exploration of the intersections between tourism, heritage, and imaginaries of the medieval in the media.

The fascinating tale of how a bipartisan coalition worked successfully to lower the voting age “Let Us Vote!” tells the story of the multifaceted endeavor to achieve youth voting rights in the United States. Over a thirty-year period starting during World War II, Americans, old and young, Democrat and Republican, in politics and culture, built a movement for the 26th Amendment to the US Constitution, which lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen in 1971. This was the last time that the United States significantly expanded voting rights. Jennifer Frost deftly illustrates how...