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American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film /
Hollywood has always been fascinated by America's past, but never more so than in the past fifteen years. Bringing exciting new perspectives to how and why Hollywood has sought to repicture American history, this book offers analysis of more than twenty mainstream contemporary films, including...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Lessons from Hollywood's American Revolution (Revolution ; The Patriot)
- Rattling the chains of history : Steven Spielberg's Amistad and "telling everyone's story" (Roots ; Amistad)
- Hollywood's Civil War dilemma : to imagine or unravel the nation? (Gettysburg ; Glory ; Ride with the devil ; Cold Mountain)
- 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 Harbor)
- Oliver Stone and the decade of trauma (Platoon ; Born on the fourth of July ; Heaven and Earth ; JFK ; Nixon)
- From civil rights to black nationalism : Hollywood v. black America? (Panther ; Mississippi burning ; The hurricane ; Malcolm X ; Ali)
- Hollywood's post-Cold War history : the "righteousness" of American interventionism (Three kings ; Black Hawk down).