American History through Hollywood Film: From the Revolution by Melvyn Stokes

By Melvyn Stokes

American historical past via Hollywood Film bargains a brand new standpoint on significant matters in American heritage from the 1770s to the top of the 20th century and explores how they've been represented in movie. Melvyn Stokes examines how and why illustration has replaced through the years, taking a look at the origins, underlying assumptions, creation, and reception of a tremendous cross-section of old movies.

Chapters care for key occasions in American background together with the yankee Revolution, the Civil conflict and its legacy, the nice melancholy, and the anti-communism of the chilly conflict period. significant issues equivalent to ethnicity, slavery, local american citizens and Jewish immigrants are lined and a last bankruptcy seems on the method the Sixties and 70s were handled by way of Hollywood. This publication is vital analyzing for a person learning American background and the connection among background and film.

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