| Description |
x, 276 pages : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cultural history written with lightening: the significance of The birth of a nation (1915) / Everett Carter -- Problems in film history: how Fox innovated sound / Douglas Gomery -- Ideology and film rhetoric: three documentaries of the New Deal era (1936-1941) / Peter C. Rollins -- Fighting words: City lights (1931), Modern times (1936), and The great dictator (1940) / Ira S. Jaffe -- The grapes of wrath (1940): thematic emphasis through visual style / Vivian C. Sobchack -- History with lightning: the forgotten film Wilson (1944) / Thomas J. Knock -- The Negro soldier (1944): film propaganda in black and white / Thomas Cripps and David Culbert -- The snake pit (1948): the sexist nature of sanity / Leslie Fishbein -- Ambivalence as a theme in On the waterfront (1954): an interdisciplinary approach to film study / Kenneth R. Hey -- Dr. Strangelove (1964): nightmare comedy and the ideology of liberal consensus / Charles Maland -- A test of American film censorship: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) / Leonard J. Leff -- Apocalypse now (1979): Joseph Conrad and the television war / William M. Hagen -- Film, television and American studies / Peter C. Rollins |
| Analysis |
ADAPTATONS. CONRAD, JOSEPH |
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APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) |
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BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) |
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CENSORSHIP. USA |
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CHAPLIN, CHARLES |
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CITY LIGHTS (US, Charles Chaplin, 1931) |
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CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA |
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FOX STUDIOS |
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GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940) |
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GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940) |
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HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA |
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HOLLYWOOD |
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MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936) |
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NATIVE LAND (US, Leo Hurwitz & Paul Strand, 1942) |
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NEGRO SOLDIER, THE (US, Frank Capra, 1944) |
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ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954) |
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RIVER, THE (US, Lorentz Pare, 1937) |
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SNAKE PIT (US, Anatole Litvak, 1948) |
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VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS |
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WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (US, Mike Nichols, 1966) |
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WILSON (US, Henry King, 1944) |
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[DOCTOR] DR STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964) |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Historical films -- History and criticism.
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Historical films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Historical films -- United States.
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Motion picture plays -- History and criticism.
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Motion picture plays, American -- History and criticism.
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Motion pictures and history.
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Popular culture -- United States.
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| Author |
Rollins, Peter C., editor
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| LC no. |
82049118 |
| ISBN |
0813101549 |
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