Reconstructing American Historical Cinema: From Cimarron to Citizen KaneUniversity Press of Kentucky, 27 Okt 2006 - 464 halaman In Reconstructing American Historical Cinema: From Cimarron to Citizen Kane, J. E. Smyth dramatically departs from the traditional understanding of the relationship between film and history. By looking at production records, scripts, and contemporary reviews, Smyth argues that certain classical Hollywood filmmakers were actively engaged in a self-conscious and often critical filmic writing of national history. Her volume is a major reassessment of American historiography and cinematic historians from the advent of sound to the beginning of wartime film production in 1942. Focusing on key films such as Cimarron (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), Scarface (1932), Ramona (1936), A Star Is Born (1937), Jezebel (1938), Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), Gone with the Wind (1939), Stagecoach (1939), and Citizen Kane (1941), Smyth explores historical cinema's connections to popular and academic historigraphy, historical fiction, and journalism, providing a rich context for the industry's commitment to American history. Rather than emphasizing the divide between American historical cinema and historical writing, Smyth explores the continuities between Hollywood films and history written during the first four decades of the twentieth century, from Carl Becker's famous "Everyman His Own Historian" to Howard Hughes's Scarface to Margaret Mitchell and David O. Selznick's Gone with the Wind. Hollywood's popular and often controversial cycle of historical films from 1931 to 1942 confronted issues as diverse as frontier racism and women's experiences in the nineteenth-century South, the decline of American society following the First World War, the rise of Al Capone, and the tragic history of Hollywood's silent era. Looking at rarely discussed archival material, Smyth focuses on classical Hollywood filmmakers' adaptation and scripting of traditional historical discourse and their critical revision of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American history. Reconstructing American Historical Cinema uncovers Hollywood's diverse and conflicted attitudes toward American history. This text is a fundamental challenge the prevailing scholarship in film, history, and cultural studies. |
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... filmmakers would redefine not only the tenuous border between historical writing and filmmaking but also that allegedly separating history and journalism . Over a fifteen - year period , these filmmakers presented alternative views of ...
... filmmakers had used forewords to arrogate historical authority to filmmaking , DeMille used the foreword as a screen against the demands of history . After all , the narrative used major historical char- acters in a wholly fictitious ...
... filmmakers created a canon of great events , stars , films , and technologi- cal innovations , but there were considerable struggles over their relative importance in the script . The " Evolution " of Film History Writers , social ...
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Cimarron 1931 | 27 |
Contemporary History in the Age of Scarface 1932 | 57 |
Competing Frontiers 19331938 | 89 |
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