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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... Roosevelt Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig Harry S. Truman George Washington xi 10 15 22 28 37 42 49 58 69 81 86 93 103 109 116 125 139 148 153 161 169 175 180 184 191 196 198 207 218 225 234 241 249 256 263 269 277 CONTENTS.
... George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven (1992)—which, like many other genre films, reflect their own eras as much as they depict the past. In our time of burgeoning Native American ...
... George Roy Hill's self-consciously “kicky” Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), with Paul Newman and Robert Redford; and John Huston's offbeat The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), with Newman as the selfappointed guardian ...
... George Gershwin's symphonic rhapsodies and Tin Pan Alley songs (legacies of the late James Europe) and the machines and gunshots in the music of George Antheil. F. Scott Fitzgerald proclaimed the decade the Jazz Age in The Great Gatsby ...
... George Fitzmaurice's Lilac Time (1928), and Lewis Milestone's antiwar classic All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). It was no coincidence that many films reflected a society newly galvanized and in constant motion, both in the air, 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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