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American history and contemporary Hollywood film /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2005.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Lessons from Hollywood's American Revolution: Revolution
- The Patriot
- 2 Rattlig the chains of history: Steven Spielberg's Amistad and 'telling everyone's story': Roots
- Amistad
- 3 Hollywood's Civil War dilemma: to imagine or unrael the nation?: Gettsburg
- Glory
- Ride with the Devil
- Cold Mountain
- 4 Saving the Good War: Hollywood and World War II in the post-Cold War world: Saving Private Ryan
- The Thin Red Line
- U-571
- Pearl Harbour
- 5 Oliver Stone and the decade of trauma: Platoon
- Born on the Fourth of July
- Heaven and Earth
- JFK
- Nixon
- 6 From Civil Rights to Black Nationalism: Hollywood v. black America?: Panther
- Mississippi Burning
- The Hurricanel Malcom X
- Ali
- Hollywood's post-Cold War history: the 'righteousness' of American interventionism: Three Kings
- Black Hawk Down
- Select Bibliography
- Index