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Hollywood's America : understanding history through film / [edited with an introduction by] Steven Mintz, Randy Roberts and David Welky.
- Title
- Hollywood's America : understanding history through film / [edited with an introduction by] Steven Mintz, Randy Roberts and David Welky.
- Publication
- Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons, 2016.
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- Description
- xii, 432 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "In our increasingly visual culture, a growing amount of what we learn about history comes from the movies, Popular films both represent and misrepresent the historical past. Hollywood's America offers a succinct, readable history of American film and an engaging exploration of how particular films and stars illuminate particular historical eras. Carefully selected primary sources provide additional insights into the ways that Hollywood films have shaped the public imagination and provide examples of how to interpret classic American films as artifacts of a shifting American culture."--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : The Social and Cultural History of American Film -- The Silent Era. Introduction : Intolerance and the Rise of the Feature Film ; Workers in Early Film ; Silent Cinema as Historical Mythmaker ; The Revolt against Victorianism ; Primary Sources (Edison v. American Mutoscope Co. ; “The Nickel Madness” ; Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Commission of Ohio) ; Fighting a Vicious Film : Protest against The Birth of a Nation (Boston Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1915 ; Analysis by Francis Hackett) ; "Seeing Our Boys 'Over There'" --^
- Hollywood's Golden Age. Introduction : Backstage during the Great Depression : 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, and Footlight Parade ; Depression America and Its Films ; The Depression's Human Toll ; Depression Allegories ; African Americans on the Silver Screen ; Primary Sources (The Introduction of Sound ; "Pictures That Talk" ; Review of Don Juan ; "Silence is Golden") ; Film Censorship (The Sins of Hollywood, 1922 ; "The Don'ts and Be Carefuls" ; The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 ; The State Department on Hollywood in Germany, 1934 ; The State Department on Hollywood in Latin America, 1934) --^
- Hollywood in the World War II Era. Introduction : Hollywood's World War II Combat Films ; Movies and Great Britain ; Blockbuster as Propaganda ; John Wayne and Wartime Hollywood ; The Woman's Film ; Primary Sources (Sumner Welles to Franklin Roosevelt, 1941 ; The 1941 Academy Awards : Hollywood and the President ; Correspondence between Walter Wanger and Stephen Early ; Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Academy Awards Dinner ; Walter Wanger to Stephen Early ; Madeleine Carroll to Franklin Roosevelt ; U.S. Senate Subcommittee Hearings on Motion Picture and Radio Propaganda, 1941 ; Excerpts from The Government Information Manual for the Motion Picture Industry, 1942 ; Bureau of Motion Pictures Report : Casablanca) --^
- Postwar Hollywood. Introduction : Double Indemnity and Film Noir ; The Red Scare in Hollywood ; Movies Grow Up ; The Morality of Informing ; Science Fiction as Social Commentary ; Primary Sources (United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., 1947 ; Hearings Regarding the Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry ; U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities, 1947 ; U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities, 1951 ; The Waldorf Statement) -- Hollywood in an Age of Turmoil. Introduction : Bonnie and Clyde ; The Dark Side of the 1960s ; Films of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s ; Film Capital and National Capital ; Reaffirming Traditional Values ; Presenting African Americans on Film ; Coming to Terms with the Vietnam War ; Primary Sources (Raymond Caldiero to Herbert L. Porter, 1972) --^
- Hollywood in the Post-Studio Era. Introduction : A Changing Hollywood ; Feminism and Recent American Film ; The Screen and the Cross ; Social Revolution on Screen ; Encountering Distant Lands ; Superheroes for the Twenty-First Century ; Movies and the Construction of Historical Memory.
- ISBN
- 9781118976494 (pbk.)
- 1118976495 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2015036874
- OCLC
- 922909698
- SCSB-12591800
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library