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  • Hollywood's West

    The American Frontier in Film, Television, & History

    de Peter C. Rollins, John E. O'Connor ...
    "An excellent study that should interest film buffs, academics, and non-academics alike" ( Journal of the West).Hollywood's West examines popular perceptions of the frontier as a defining feature of American identity and history. Seventeen essays by prominent film scholars illuminate the allure of life on the edge of civilization and analyze how this region has been represented on big and small ... Leer más

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  • Hollywood's White House

    The American Presidency in Film and History

    de Peter C. Rollins, John E. O'Connor ...
    From action flicks to biopics to SNL skits, how presidents are portrayed on screen: "An interesting study of the real presidency and the reel presidency." — USA Today MagazineWinner of the Popular Culture Association's Ray and Pat Browne Book AwardWhether serious or satirical, biographical or fictional, the ways that US presidents are depicted in popular culture reveal much about us as a nation. ... Leer más

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  • Why We Fought

    America's Wars in Film and History

    de Peter C. Rollins, John E. O'Connor ...
    Series series Film and History
    A "wide-ranging and sophisticated anthology" comparing theaters of war to wars in the movie theater (Dennis Showalter, author of Patton and Rommel).Why We Fought makes a powerful case that film can be as valuable a tool as primary documents for improving our understanding of the causes and consequences of war.A comprehensive look at war films, from depictions of the American Revolution to ... Leer más

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  • Hollywood's Indian

    The Portrayal of the Native American in Film

    Edición de Peter C. Rollins, John E. O'Connor ...
    Offering both in-depth analyses of specific films and overviews of the industry's output, Hollywood's Indian provides insightful characterizations of the depiction of the Native Americans in film. This updated edition includes a new chapter on Smoke Signals , the groundbreaking independent film written by Sherman Alexie and directed by Chris Eyre. Taken as a whole the essays explore the many ways ... Leer más

    $20.49 USD

  • Theatre Symposium, Vol. 9

    Theatre and Politics in the Twentieth Century

    de James Fisher, Susan Kattwinkel, John E. O'Connor, Barry B. Whitham, Jonathan Chambers, Steve Ernest, Christopher Herr, Carol Burbank, Mary Trotter, Kurt Elgin, Jeff Turner, Anne Fletcher ...
    Series Libro 9 - Theatre Symposium Series
    This collection of essays explores how drama can teach political principles and entertain at the same time.Political commentary is possible through "variety" theatre, this volume contends. Compiled from the April 2000 Theatre Symposium held on the campus of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, this collection of essays presents a compelling mix of theoretical and practical viewpoints from a ... Leer más

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  • Celluloid Indians

    Native Americans and Film

    de Neva Jacquelyn Kilpatrick ...
    Native American characters have been the most malleable of metaphors for filmmakers. The likeable Doc of Stagecoach (1939) had audiences on the edge of their seats with dire warnings about “that old butcher, Geronimo.” Old Lodgeskins of Little Big Man (1970) had viewers crying out against the demise of the noble, wise chief and his kind and simple people. In 1995 Disney created a beautiful, peace ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Reservation Reelism

    Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film

    de Michelle H. Raheja ...
    In this deeply engaging account Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood’s representation of Indigenous peoples. Since the era of silent films, Hollywood movies and visual culture generally have provided the primary representational field on which Indigenous images have been displayed to non-Native ... Leer más

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  • The Silence on the Shore

    de Hugh Garner ...
    Series Libro 19 - Voyageur Classics
    Originally published in 1962, The Silence on the Shore is considered by many critics to be Hugh Garners best, most ambitious novel. Truly, in the person of Grace Hill, the landlady of the Toronto rooming house where most of the books events take place, Garner has created a fictional character never to be forgotten. Grace is a middle-aged snoop and an overweight nudist whose sexual release comes ... Leer más

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  • The Philosophy of the Western

    de Jennifer L. McMahon, B. Steve Csaki ...
    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    Essays about how stories of the Old West reflect—and affect—our beliefs and values.The solitude of the lone rider, the loyalty of his horse, and the unspoken code of the West—for many, Western movies embody America and its values, though the view of the country's history they present isn't always accurate. In recent years, scholars had declared the genre dead, but a steady resurgence of western ... Leer más

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  • Historical Dictionary of Westerns in Literature

    de Paul Varner ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    When in 1902 Owen Wister, a member of the Eastern blueblood aristocracy and friend of novelist Henry James, became a best-selling novelist with the publication of The Virginian, few readers would have guessed that a new kind of American literature was being born. While Owen Wister was enjoying his success, Edwin S. Porter in New Jersey was filming the first cinema Western The Great Train Robbery, ... Leer más

    $129.99 USD

  • The Columbia Companion to American History on Film

    How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past

    Edición de Peter Rollins ...
    American history has always been an irresistible source of inspiration for filmmakers, and today, for good or ill, most Americans'sense of the past likely comes more from Hollywood than from the works of historians. In important films such as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Roots (1977), Apocalypse Now (1979), and Saving Private Ryan (1998), how much is entertainment and how much is rooted in ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Searching for John Ford

    de Joseph McBride ...
    John Ford's classic films--such as Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man, and The Searchers--have earned him worldwide admiration as America's foremost filmmaker, a director whose rich visual imagination conjures up indelible, deeply moving images of our collective past.Joseph McBride's Searching for John Ford, described as definitive by both the New York Times ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD