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Titre(s) : Writing history with lightning [Texte imprimé] : cinematic representations of nineteenth-century America / edited by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and John C. Inscoe
Publication : Baton Rouge, [Louisiana] : Louisiana state university press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : ix, 335 pages : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references, filmography (pages 311-313) and index
"As opposed to previous volumes focused on topics like slavery or the West, Writing
History with Lightning edited by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and John C. Inscoe offers
an expansive look at how films represent the history of nineteenth-century America
and, in turn, how those depictions influence the ways in which mass audiences remember,
envision, and reimagine the nation's past. Across twenty-six essays, a group of prominent
historians, including Catherine Clinton, Kenneth Greenberg, and Marcus Rediker, moves
beyond separating fact from fiction to consider the raw power that movies possess
in influencing broad interpretations of American history"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Hulbert, Matthew Christopher. Éditeur scientifique
Inscoe, John C. (1951-....). Éditeur scientifique
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Cinematic representations of 19th century America
Sujet(s) : Films historiques -- États-Unis
Sociologie de la réception
États-Unis -- 19e siècle -- Au cinéma
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.436 580973 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Thèmes historiques, politiques et militaires - États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780807170465. - ISBN 0807170461. - ISBN 9780807170892 (erroné). - ISBN 9780807170908
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45716900h
Notice n° :
FRBNF45716900
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction : reappraising a century's worth of lightning / Matthew Christopher Hulbert
; I. Frontiers, empire, and the early nation. The far horizons : the Lewis and Clark
saga as a surfeit of stereotypes / Donna J. Barbie ; We are Melville's monsters :
In the heart of the sea as eco-horror in the age of climate change / Brian Rouleau
; "Some say he's dead, some say he never will be" : mountain men and the frontier-hero
myth in Jeremiah Johnson and The revenant / Jacob F. Lee ; Andrew Jackson and the
ladies : The gorgeous hussy and The president's lady / John F. Marszalek ; Delineating
Davy, defining ourselves : The Alamo in 1960 and in 2004 / James E. Crisp ; II. Slavery
and the antebellum South. A fugitive slave in southern Appalachia : The journey of
August King / John C. Inscoe ; Birth and rebirth : filming Nat Turner in the age
of fake news / Kenneth S. Greenberg ; History white-washed : reflections on Steven
Spielberg's Amistad / Marcus Rediker ; "I survive" : individual, community, and slavery
in Steve McQueen's 12 years a slave / William L. Andrews ; "Now you are ready for
Mandingo" : sex, slavery, and historical realism / Diane Miller Sommerville ; Mint
julep melodrama : Jezebel / Catherine Clinton ; III. Sectional crisis and civil war.
From "Bleeding Kansas" to Harpers Ferry via Santa Fe Trail / Nicole Etcheson ; Abraham
Lincoln on film / Michael Burlingame ; Glory : "heroism writ large, from people whom
history had made small" / John David Smith ; "And does it matter, after all, who
wins?" : the movie Gettysburg and popular perceptions of the Civil War / Lesley J.
Gordon ; Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York : racial ambiguity in New York City's
Five Points / Graham Russell Gao Hodges ; The assassin's accomplices : guilt, innocence,
and redemption in The prisoner of Shark Island and The conspirator / Jonathan D. Sarris
; IV. The lost cause, Reconstruction, and the West. Historical to a fault : Gary Ross,
Free state of Jones, and the (eventual) destruction of the lost cause / Joseph M.
Beilein Jr. ; Sommersby : identity, imposture, and (re)construction in the post-Civil
War South / Tom Lee ; Knights of the twenty Years' War : race and American exceptionalism
in The hateful eight / Matthew E. Stanley ; The silver lining of "bad history" at
the movies : Reconstruction, Confederate exiles, and The undefeated / Matthew Christopher
Hulbert ; Custer's last stands : remaking a frontier legend in Hollywood film / Kevin
Waite ; V. Late-century economics and immigration. Far and away : the stereotype
of the Irish immigrant story / Ryan W. Keating ; Silver screen, Bright leaf : Hollywood's
cigarette habit / Drew A. Swanson ; Adaptation and autonomy on the Lower East Side
: the Jews of Hester Street / Stephen J. Whitfield ; "We've taken old gods and given
them new names" : the spirit of Sankofa in Daughters of the dust / Allison Dorsey.
