America on Film: Hollywood and American History

by Kenneth M. Cameron

Can we view our history - an by implications ourselves - through the movies? Is there a relationship between good history and good film-making? How does Hollywood view America's past? The challenge of making the great American historical film has attracted some of the finest talents: D.W. Griffith, John Ford, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone and Spike Lee. From the earliest flickering images of The Spirit of '76 (1905)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826410332
• ISBN13: 9780826410337
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"