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Hollywood and the American Historical Film
ISBN/EAN: 9780230230927
Umbreit-Nr.: 2058192
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 272 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 09.12.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
- Zusatztext
- This definitive interdisciplinary collection by leading scholars probes the theoretical and historical contexts of films made about the American past, from silent film to the present. The book offers a fresh assessment of studio era historical filmmaking and its legacy across a range of genres.
- Kurztext
- Brings together the voices of leading scholars, including Nicholas Cull, David Culbert, Marcia Landy, Robert Rosenstone and Robert Sklar History and Film is a growing and popular area of study, and this will be the definitive book for courses on American historical filmmaking Discusses a wide range of films and genres, from westerns to film noir, including classics such as Gone with the Wind, Citizen Kane and Some Like it Hot
- Autorenportrait
- J.E. SMYTH is Assistant Professor of History and Comparative American Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of Reconstructing American Historical Cinema from Cimarron to Citizen Kane and Edna Ferber's Hollywood: American Fictions of Gender, Race and History, which won the Association of American Publishers' Prose Award for Media and Cultural Studies.