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9780813109510

Hollywood As Historian

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  • ISBN13:

    9780813109510

  • ISBN10:

    0813109515

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-12-18
  • Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky

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Summary

" The films considered: The Birth of a Nation (1915), The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936), The River (1937), March of Time (1935-1953), City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936), The Great Dictator (1940), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Native Land (1942), Wilson (1944), The Negro Soldier (1944), The Snake Pit (1948), On the Waterfront (1954), Dr. Strangelove (1964), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), and Apocalypse Now (1979).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii(2)
Foreword ix
RAY B. BROWNE
Introduction 1(8)
PETER C. ROLLINS
1 Cultural History Written with Lightning: The Significance of The Birth of A Nation (1915)
9(11)
EVERETT CARTER
2 Problems in Film History: How Fox Innovated Sound
20(12)
DOUGLAS GOMERY
3 Ideology and Film Rhetoric: Three Documentaries of the New Deal Era (1936-1941)
32(17)
PETER ROLLINS
4 Fighting Words: City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936), and The Great Dictator (1940)
49(19)
IRA S. JAFFE
5 The Grapes of Wrath (1940): Thematic Emphasis through Visual Style
68(20)
VIVIAN C. SOBCHACK
6 History with Lightning: The Forgotten Film Wilson (1944)
88(21)
THOMAS KNOCK
7 The Negro Soldier (1944): Film Propaganda in Black and White
109(25)
THOMAS CRIPPS
DAVID CULBERT
8 The Snake Pit (1948): The Sexist Nature of Sanity
134(25)
LESLIE FISHBEIN
9 Ambivalence as a Theme in On the Waterfront (1954): An Interdisciplinary Approach to Film Study
159(31)
KENNETH R. HEY
10 Dr. Strangelove (1964): Nightmare Comedy and the Ideology of Liberal Consensus
190(21)
CHARLES MALAND
11 A Test of American Film Censorship: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
211(19)
LEONARD J. LEFF
12 Apocalypse Now (1979): Joseph Conrad and the Television War
230(16)
WILLIAM M. HAGEN
13 Film, Television, and American Studies: A 1998 Update
246(24)
PETER C. ROLLINS
Film Data and Purchase Sources 270(3)
Contributors 273(3)
Index 276

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