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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Greenberg, Kenneth. Writing History with Lightning : Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America. Baton Rouge : LSU Press, ©2019 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Matthew C Hulbert; John C Inscoe |
ISBN: | 9780807170892 0807170895 |
OCLC Number: | 1080433135 |
Notes: | 25. Adaptation and Autonomy on the Lower East Side: The Jews of Hester Street stephen j. whitfield |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Cover; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reappraising a Century's Worth of Lightning matthew christopher hulbert; I. FRONTIERS, EMPIRE, AND THE EARLY NATION; 1 The Far Horizons The Lewis and Clark Saga as a Surfeit of Stereotypes donna j. barbie; 2. We Are Melville's Monsters: In the Heart of the Sea as Eco-Horror in the Age of Climate Change brian rouleau; 3. "Some Say He's Dead, Some Say He Never Will Be": Mountain Men and the Frontier-Hero Myth in Jeremiah Johnson and The Revenant jacob f. lee 4. Andrew Jackson and the Ladies: The Gorgeous Hussy and The President's Lady john f. marszalek5 Delineating Davy, Defining Ourselves The Alamo in 1960 and in 2004 james e. crisp; II. SLAVERY AND THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH; 6. A Fugitive Slave in Southern Appalachia: The Journey of August King john c. inscoe; 7. Birth and Rebirth: Filming Nat Turner in the Age of Fake News kenneth s. greenberg; 8. History White-Washed: Reflections on Steven Spielberg's Amistad marcus rediker; 9. "I Survive": Individual, Community, and Slavery in Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave william l. andrews 10. "Now You Are Ready for Mandingo": Sex, Slavery, and Historical Realism diane miller sommerville11. Mint Julep Melodrama: Jezebel catherine clinton; III. SECTIONAL CRISIS AND CIVIL WAR; 12 From "Bleeding Kansas" to Harpers Ferry via Santa Fe Trail nicole etcheson; 13. Abraham Lincoln on Film michael burlingame; 14. Glory: "Heroism Writ Large, From People Whom History Had Made Small" john david smith; 15. "And Does It Matter, After All, Who Wins?": The Movie Gettysburg and Popular Perceptions of the Civil War lesley j. gordon 16. Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York: Racial Ambiguity in New York City's Five Points graham russell gao hodges17. The Assassin's Accomplices: Guilt, Innocence, and Redemption in The Prisoner of Shark Island and The Conspirator jonathan d. sarris; IV. THE LOST CAUSE, RECONSTRUCTION, AND THE WEST; 18. Historical to a Fault: Gary Ross, Free State of Jones, and the (Eventual) Destruction of the Lost Cause joseph m. beilein jr; 19. Sommersby: Identity, Imposture, and (Re)construction in the Post-Civil War South tom lee 20. Knights of the Twenty Years' War: Race and American Exceptionalism in The Hateful Eight matthew e. stanley21. The Silver Lining of "Bad History" at the Movies: Reconstruction, Confederate Exiles, and The Undefeated matthew christopher hulbert; 22. Custer's Last Stands: Remaking a Frontier Legend in Hollywood Film kevin waite; V. LATE-CENTURY ECONOMICS AND IMMIGRATION; 23 Far and Away The Stereotype of the Irish Immigrant Story ryan w. keating; 24. Silver Screen, Bright Leaf: Hollywood's Cigarette Habit drew a. swanson |
Other Titles: | Cinematic representations of 19th century America |
Responsibility: | edited by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and John C. Inscoe. |
Abstract:
Balancing historical nuance with passion for cinematic narratives, Writing History with Lightning confronts how movies about nineteenth-century America influence the ways in which mass audiences remember, understand, and envision the nation's past.
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