Title American history goes to the movies : Hollywood and the American experience / W. Bryan Rommel-Ruiz

Published New York : Routledge, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 296 pages) Contents 1. Exorcising the demons within : gender, race, and the problem of evil in American history and cinema -- 2. Redeeming the South, redeeming the nation : representations of Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and Reconstruction in American film, television, and historical scholarship -- 3. Envisioning and re-visioning America : Hollywood westerns and engaging the American past -- 4. Historicizing triumphs and tragedies in the American west : the Hollywood western as cultural text in recent American history -- 5. Immigration, the American Dream, and the problem of the Irish American experience -- 6. The European American and Mexican American immigration experience : the problem of narrative in American social history -- 7. Beyond Dallas : history, narrative, and the struggle for meaning in the Kennedy assassination -- 8. "We are alive in hell" : finding historical meaning and significance in 9/11 Summary Whether they prefer blockbusters, historical dramas, or documentaries, people learn much of what they know about history from the movies. In American History Goes to the Movies, W. Bryan Rommel-Ruiz shows how popular representations of historic events shape the way audiences understand the history of the United States, including American representations of race and gender, and stories of immigration, especially the familiar narrative of the American Dream. Using films from many different genres, American History Goes to the Movies draws together movies that depict the Civil War, the Wild West Notes Print version record Subject National characteristics, American, in motion pictures. Motion pictures -- United States -- History PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General. Motion pictures National characteristics, American, in motion pictures SUBJECT United States -- In motion pictures. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85141046 Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History Subject California -- Los Angeles -- Hollywood United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780203833735 0203833732

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