Randy W. Roberts is Professor of History at Purdue University and specializes in recent U.S. history, U.S. sports history, and the history of popular culture. He is the author of Where the Domino Fell: America and Vietnam, Fifth Edition (with James S. Olson, Blackwell, 2006), Charles A. Lindbergh: The Power and Peril of Celebrity 1927-1941 (with David Welky, Blackwell, 2003), A Line in the Sand: The Alamo in Blood and Memory (with James S. Olson, 2001), My Lai: A Brief History with Documents (with James S. Olson, 1998), and John Wayne American (with James S. Olson, 1996). Among his many sport history publications are (with David Welky) One For The Thumb: The New Steelers Reader (2006), The Rock, the Curse, and the Hub: A Random History of Boston Sports (2005), Jack Dempsey: The Manassa Mauler (2003), The Steelers Reader (with David Welky, 2001), Winning Is the Only Thing: Sports in America since 1945 (with James Olson, 1989), and Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of White Hopes (1983).
Preface | |
Introduction | |
The Silent Era | |
Introduction | |
Silent Film as Social Criticism | |
Silent Cinema as Historical Mythmaker | |
Silent Comedy as Cultural Commentary | |
Primary Sources | |
Hollywood's Golden Age | |
Introduction | |
Depression America and Its Films | |
The Depression's Human Toll | |
Depression Allegories | |
African Americans on the Silver Screen | |
Oson Wells as Poet and Historian | |
Primary Sources | |
Wartime Hollywood | |
Introduction | |
Wartime Films as Instruments of Propaganda | |
Casablanca as Propaganda | |
Bureau of Motion Pictures Report | |
How WW II Affected Women | |
Primary Source | |
Postwar Hollywood | |
Introduction | |
The Red Scare in Hollywood | |
A Perverse Tribute to Hollywood's Past | |
The Morality of Informing | |
Science Fiction as Social Commentary | |
The Western as Cold War Film | |
Primary Sources | |
Hollywood Since Vietnam | |
Introduction | |
A Shifting Sensibility | |
Films of the Late Sixties and Early Seventies | |
Reaffirming traditional Values | |
Coming to Terms with the Vietnam War | |
Films of the Eighties | |
Our Movie-Made President | |
Primary Source | |
Presenting African Americans on Film | |
Bibliography | |
Acknowledgments | |
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