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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Grant Annis George Tracey |
| ISBN: | 0313313008 9780313313004 |
| OCLC Number: | 46937632 |
| Description: | xii, 336 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | America before the Civil War -- The Civil War, 1861-1865 -- The way west and America's two solitudes, 1840-1900 -- The country versus the city: the agrarian and industrial conflict, 1870-1940 -- Immigration and the challenge to Anglo-conformity, 1885-1961 -- World war one and goodbye to all that, 1916-1933 -- The Great Depression, documentary expression, and representing the previously unrepresented, 1929-1967 -- World War Two and the individual versus the collective, 1933-1950s -- Postwar alienation and despair, 1946-1962 -- Civil rights and the battle for the inclusion into the American dream, 1949-present -- The atomic bomb, Cold War paranoia, and the expanding national security state, 1946-Present -- Viet Nam and the things we carry, 1954-present -- The counterculture rebellion and the quest for authenticity, 1961-Present -- Watergate, political cynicism, and hope, 1972-present -- Appendix 1: Multicultural films -- Appendix 2: Woman-centered films. |
| Responsibility: | Grant Tracey. |
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Abstract:
Containing over 200 recommended films, this resource is ideal for students, teachers, and other viewers who are interested in using films to enhance their knowledge of American history. Along with traditional historical categories, such as the two World Wars, the Civil War, and the Great Depression, the book emphasizes immigrant, multicultural, and women-centered films to portray the fullness of the American experience. It also analyzes representations of people and events across different films for a variety of viewpoints, and considers how films reconfigure a past era through the issues of the day in which they were produced. In this study of US social history through the cinematic lens of some 200 films, Tracey (film studies and creative writing, U. of Northern Iowa) views themes from antebellum slavery (e.g., in Amistad, 1997) to contemporary political cynicism as expressed in Wag the Dog (1997). Includes recommended further viewing as well as further reading, and lists of multicultural films and women-centered films.
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