12. Between nostalgia and regret: strategies of historical disruption from Douglas Sirk to Mad Men / Vera Dika. 2. Film history, reconstruction, and southern legendary history in The Birth of a Nation / David Culbert -- 3. The Hollywood Western, the movement-image, and making history / Marcia Landy -- 4. Ripping the portieres at the seams: lessons from Streetcar on Gone with the Wind / Susan Courtney -- 5. Hollywood about Hollywood: genre as historiography / Robert Sklar -- 6. Some Like it Hot and the virtues of not taking history too seriously / David Eldridge -- 7. Vico's age of heroes and the age of men in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance / Mark W. Roche and Vittorio HoĢsle -- 8. Anatomy of a shipwreck: Warner Bros., The White House and the celluloid sinking of PT 109 / Nicholas J. Cull -- 9. The long road of women's memory: Fred Zinnemann's Julia / J.E. Smyth -- 10. Inventing historical truth on the silver screen / Robert Rosenstone -- 11. 'This is not America, this is Los Angeles': crime, space, and history in the City of Angels / Ian Scott -- 12. Between nostalgia and regret: strategies of historical disruption from Douglas Sirk to Mad Men / Vera Dika.
Summary:
"This definitive interdisciplinary collection by leading scholars probes the theoretical and historical contexts of films made about the American past from silent film to the present. The book offers a fresh assessment of studio era historical filmmaking and its legacy across a range of genres"-- Provided by publisher.
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