The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American PastPeter C. Rollins Columbia University Press, 2003 - 671 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. 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 are the key films on this topic? - What sources did the filmmaker use, and how did the film deviate (or remain true to) its sources? - 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? |
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... historians . In important films such as The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ) , Roots ( 1977 ) , Apoca- lypse Now ( 1979 ) , and Saving Private Ryan ( 1998 ) , how much is entertainment and how much is rooted in historical fact ? In The ...
... historians should be particularly concerned about this phenomenon , for what millions see on theater and television screens defines what is called " popular memory , " the informal - albeit generally accepted - view of the past . Indeed ...
... Historians deplore Stone's mélange of fact and speculation . As George Will , a noted columnist and former professor of politics , has observed rancorously , " Stone falsifies so much that he may be an intellectual sociopath ...
... historians . They are pow- erfully convincing as screen narratives , often more convincing than attempted classroom re- buttals by history teachers . Over the history of motion pictures , there have been isolated attempts to critique ...
... historians . Most contributors are from history or film departments , but some are in American studies and communications ; all of the scholars who have contributed follow an interdisciplinary methodology with the goal of linking ...
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The Puritan Era and the Puritan Mind | 3 |
The 1890s | 10 |
The 1920s | 15 |
The 1930s | 22 |
The 1960s | 29 |
The 1970s | 37 |
The 1980s | 42 |
The American Revolution | 49 |
Women in the Twentieth Century | 310 |
Baseball | 319 |
City and State Government | 326 |
Civil Rights | 331 |
Congress | 344 |
The Family | 352 |
Football | 363 |
Journalism and the Media | 374 |
The Civil War and Reconstruction | 58 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
The Midwest | 421 |
The New West and the New Western | 430 |
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 |
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 |
The American Adam | 561 |
The American Fighting Nan | 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 |
List of Contributors | 603 |
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