The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American PastPeter C. Rollins Columbia University Press, 24 Mar 2004 - 696 halaman 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. |
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... 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 ...
... Asian Americans, Americans, among others, have legitimate complaints about derogatory stereotyping. The existing film record gives a fascinating window on how Americans have seen themselves—and others—on motion picture screens across ...
... Asia). Moviegoers, for the most part, focused on either the comedy or the love story between Benjamin and Elaine (Katharine Ross). When they did, they overlooked another subplot of the film, the radicalization of Mrs. Robinson (Ann ...
... Asia and examines U.S. policies concerning these people. Documentaries made in the 1980s focus more on the aftermath of Vietnam. Memorable among these include Frontline: Bloods of 'Nam (1986), Frank: A Vietnam Veteran (1981), The ...
... Asians much different from that of the World War II era—were in many respects both inspired and exploited by Reagan and his cohort. Other film reflections on social history, such as a strikingly focused cluster of farmcrisis films, a ...
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Women in the Twentieth Century | 310 |
V Institutions and Movements | 317 |
Baseball | 319 |
City and State Government | 326 |
Civil Rights | 331 |
Congress | 344 |
The Family | 352 |
Football | 363 |
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The Cold War | 69 |
The Korean War | 81 |
The MexicanAmerican War and the SpanishAmerican War | 86 |
The Vietnam War | 93 |
Westward Expansion and the Indian Wars | 103 |
World War I | 109 |
Documentaries | 116 |
Feature Films | 125 |
III Notable People | 137 |
The Antebellum Frontier Hero | 139 |
Christopher Columbus | 148 |
The Founding Fathers | 153 |
Indian Leaders | 161 |
The Kennedys | 169 |
Abraham Lincoln | 175 |
Richard Nixon | 180 |
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt | 184 |
Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig | 191 |
Harry S Truman | 196 |
George Washington | 198 |
IV Groups | 205 |
African Americans After World War II | 207 |
Arab Americans | 218 |
Asian Americans | 225 |
Catholic Americans | 234 |
Children and Teenagers in the Twentieth Century | 241 |
Irish Americans | 249 |
Italian Americans | 256 |
Jewish Americans | 263 |
Mexican Americans | 269 |
Native Americans | 277 |
Radicals and Radicalism | 288 |
Robber Barons Media Moguls and Power Elites | 297 |
Women from the Colonial Era to 1900 | 303 |
Journalism and the Media | 374 |
The Labor Movement and the Working Class | 383 |
Militias and Extremist Political Movements | 392 |
The Political Machine | 398 |
The Presidency After World War II | 402 |
Private Schools | 409 |
Public High Schools | 413 |
VI Places | 419 |
The Midwest | 421 |
New York City | 437 |
The Sea | 447 |
The Small Town | 457 |
The South | 462 |
Space | 473 |
Suburbia | 480 |
Texas and the Southwest | 488 |
The TransAppalachian West | 497 |
VII Themes and Topics | 507 |
Crime and the Mafia | 509 |
Drugs Tobacco and Alcohol | 518 |
Elections and Party Politics | 527 |
Feminism and Feminist Films | 534 |
Railroads | 541 |
Sexuality | 545 |
Slavery | 552 |
VIII Myths and Hero | 559 |
The American Adam | 561 |
The American Fighting Man | 567 |
Democracy and Equality | 572 |
The Frontier and the West | 578 |
Hollywoods Detective | 583 |
The Machine in the Garden | 590 |
Success and the SelfMade Man | 596 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 603 |
Iindex | 607 |
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