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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... forces of reaction, a point Charles Reich supports in The Greening of America (312). Maurice Isserman, a respected liberal historian, grudgingly agrees that the student radicals, those who alienated the political mainstream, failed to ...
... force, was instrumental in bringing fundamental changes in social attitudes. More women had jobs previously held only ... forces. The transformation of an essentially passive and dependent image of women also brought about marked changes ...
... forces in South Vietnam and Cambodia and looks at the plight of refugees in both countries. Finally, The Boat People reports on the plight of thousands of homeless Vietnamese refugees stranded along the coast of Malaysia and Southeast ...
... forces. Yet, as we see in the sympathetic portrayal of Justice Montague, not all Tories are depicted as villains. Griffith's moral world view, abundantly demonstrated in The Birth of a Nation, divided cleanly down racial lines: the ...
... forces up until the British surrender at Saratoga. Also, the film ends with Burgoyne remarking that Britain will certainly give up its American colonies, a rather nonsensical pronouncement for a British general in 1777. Shaw's ...
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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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