Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: Monograph/item
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Title/Author: |
American history goes to the movies :/ W. Bryan Rommel-Ruiz. |
Reminder of title: |
Hollywood and the American experience / |
Author: |
Rommel-Ruiz, W. Bryan. |
Published: |
New York, NY :Routledge, : c2011., |
Description: |
viii, 296 p. ;23 cm. |
[NT 15003449]: |
Exorcising the demons within : gender, race, and the problem of evil in American history and cinema -- Redeeming the south, redeeming the nation : representations of Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and Reconstruction in American film, television, and historical scholarship -- Envisioning and re-visioning America : Hollywood westerns and engaging the American past -- Historicizing triumphs and trajedies in the American west : the Hollywood western as cultural text in recent American history -- Immigration, the American dream, and the problem of the Irish American experience -- The European American and Mexican American immigration experience : the problem of narrative in American social history -- Beyond Dallas : history, narrative, and the struggle for meaning in the Kennedy assassination -- "We are alive in hell" : finding historical meaning and significance in 9/11. |
Subject: |
National characteristics, American, in motion pictures. - |
Subject: |
United States - Economic policy - 1981-1993 - |
ISBN: |
9780415802192 (hbk.) |