American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film 9781474470841

Hollywood has a growing fascination with America's past. This is evidenced in the release of a rash of films of thi

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A comprehensive and timely resource on the depictions in film of enslaved African Americans and slavery from the Antebel

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748612468); How is the American political landscape represented in cinema?

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First things first: This is a collection of fifteen essays about American films that depicted the historical past and, i

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While the myth of a classless America endures in the American Dream, the very stratification that it denies unfairly aff

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The American family has long been at the centre of the typical Hollywood narrative. But the depiction of the nuclear fam

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Over the past ten years Hollywood has devoted big budgets and established stars to films about controversial issues, whi

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748619030); Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond provides a detailed account o

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Are You Watching Closely? is the first book to explore the recent spate of "misdirection films," a previously

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American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film
9781474470841

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