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Titre(s) : The Columbia companion to American history on film [Texte imprimé] : how the movies have portrayed the American past / edited by Peter C. Rollins
Publication : New York, [New York] : Columbia university press, 2004
Description matérielle : xxi, 671 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
American history has always been an irresistible source of inspiration for filmmakers,
and today, for good or ill, most Americans sense of the past likely comes more from
Hollywood than from the works of historians. In important films such as The Birth
of a Nation (1915), -Roots (1977), Apocalypse Now (1979), and -Saving Private Ryan
(1998), how much is entertainment and how much is rooted in historical fact? In The
Columbia Companion to American History on Film, more than seventy scholars consider
the gap between history and Hollywood. They examine how filmmakers have presented
and interpreted the most important events, topics, eras, and figures in the American
past, often comparing the film versions of events with the interpretations of the
best historians who have explored the topic. Divided into eight broad categories:
Eras; Wars and Other Major Events; Notable People; Groups; Institutions and Movements;
Places; Themes and Topics; and Myths and Heroes. The volume features extensive cross-references,
a filmography (of discussed and relevant films), notes, and a bibliography of selected
historical works on each subject. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film
is also an important resource for teachers, with extensive information for research
or for course development appropriate for both high school and college students. Though
each essay reflects the unique body of film and print works covering the subject at
hand, every essay addresses several fundamental questions: What sources did the filmmaker
use, and how did the film deviate (or remain true to) its sources? What are the key
films on this topic? How have film interpretations of a particular historical topic
changed, and what sorts of factors -technological, social, political, historiographical
-have affected their evolution? Have filmmakers altered the historical record with
a view to enhancing drama or to enhance the "truth" of their putative message?
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Rollins, Peter C. (1942-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Films historiques -- États-Unis
Civilisation -- États-Unis -- Au cinéma
États-Unis -- Histoire -- Au cinéma
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.436 580973 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Thèmes historiques, politiques et militaires - États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 023111222X. - ISBN 9780231112222. - ISBN 0231112238. - ISBN 9780231112239
EAN 9780231112222
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb454571496
Notice n° :
FRBNF45457149
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : pt. 1: Eras ; The Puritan era and the Puritan mind ; The 1890s-1980s ; pt. 2:
Wars and other major events ; The American revolution ; The Civil War and Reconstruction
; The Cold War ; The Korean War ; The Mexican-American War and the Spanish-American
War ; The Vietnam War ; Westward expansion and the Indian wars ; World War I ;
World War II: documentaries ; World War II: feature films ; pt. 3: Notable people
; The antebellum frontier hero ; Christopher Columbus ; The founding fathers ;
Indian leaders ; The Kennedys ; Abraham Lincoln ; Richard Nixon ; Franklin and
Eleanor Roosevelt ; Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig ; Harry S. Truman ; George Washington
; pt. 4: Groups ; African Americans after World War II ; Arab Americans ; Asian
Americans ; Catholic Americans ; Children and teenagers in the twentieth century
; Irish Americans ; Italian Americans ; Jewish Americans ; Mexican Americans ;
Native Americans ; Radicals and radicalism ; Robber barons, media moguls, and power
elites ; Women from the Colonial era to 1900 ; Women in the twentieth century ;
pt. 5: Institutions and movements ; Baseball ; City and state government ; Civil
rights ; Congress ; The family ; Football ; Journalism and the media ; The labor
movement and the working class ; Militias and extremist political movements ; The
political machine ; The Presidency after World War II ; Private schools ; Public
high schools ; pt. 6: Places ; The Midwest ; The "new" West and the new Western
; New York City ; The sea ; The small town ; The South ; Space ; Surburbia ;
Texas and the Southwest ; The Trans-Applachian West ; pt. 7: Themes and topics
; Crime and the Mafia ; Drugs, tobacco, and alcohol ; Elections and party politics
; Feminism and feminist films ; Railroads ; Sexuality ; Slavery ; pt. 8: Myths
and heroes ; The American Adam ; The American fighting man ; Democracy and equality
; The frontier and the West ; Hollywood's detective ; The machine in the garden
; Success and the self-made man.