Reconstructing American historical cinema : from Cimarron to Citizen Kane / J. E. Smyth.
Reconstructing American historical cinema : from Cimarron to Citizen Kane / J. E. Smyth.
Reconstructing American historical cinema : from Cimarron to Citizen Kane / J. E. Smyth.
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Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
Date
2006.
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N791.43658/60
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
Introduction : toward a filmic writing of history in classical Hollywood -- 1. The new American history : Cimarron, 1931 -- 2. Contemporary history in the age of Scarface, 1932 -- 3. Competing frontiers, 1933-1938 -- 4. The return of our epic America, 1938-1941 -- 5. Jezebels and rebels, cavaliers a...
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Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
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Kentucky
Date Published
2006.
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"By looking at production records, scripts, and contemporary reviews, J. E. Smyth argues that certain classical Hollywood filmmakers were actively engaged in a self-conscious history. Her volume is a major reassessment of American historiography and cinematic historians from the advent of sound to the beginning of wartime film production in 1942."...
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Reconstructing American historical cinema : from Cimarron to Citizen Kane / J. E. Smyth.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N791.43658/60
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0813124069 (alk. paper)
9780813124063 (alk. paper)
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791.43658
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991022028369702626
