American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film / / Trevor McCrisken, Andrew Pepper.
Hollywood has a growing fascination with America's past. This is evidenced in the release of a rash of films of this genre in the past 25 years. This book offers an analysis of how and why contemporary Hollywood films have sought to mediate American history. It is the first book to explore, com...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Lessons from Hollywood's American revolution
- Chapter 2 Rattling the chains of history: Steven Spielberg's amistad and 'telling everyone's story'
- Chapter 3 Hollywood's civil war dilemma: to imagine or unravel the nation?
- Chapter 4 Saving the good war: Hollywood and world war II in the post-cold war world
- Chapter 5 Oliver Stone and the decade of trauma
- Chapter 6 From civil rights to black nationalism: Hollywood v. black America?
- Chapter 7 Hollywood's post-cold war history: the 'righteousness' of American interventionism
- Selected bibliography
- Index