1st Edition
American History Goes to the Movies Hollywood and the American Experience
By W. Bryan Rommel Ruiz
Copyright 2011
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1: Beyond Dallas: History, Narrative, and the Struggle for Meaning in the Kennedy Assassination. Chapter 2: Exorcising the Demons Within: Gender, Race, and the Problem of Evil in American History and Cinema. Chapter 3: Looking for America: Film, History, and Representing Early America. Chapter 4: Reconciling Slavery: Race and Historical Memory in Film and History. Chapter 5: Redeeming Lincoln, Redeeming the Nation: Representations of Lincoln, the Civil War, and Reconstruction in American Cinema and Historical Scholarship. Chapter 6: Defining and Redefining the West: Reconciling America’s Jeffersonian Past with Modernity. Chapter 7: Becoming American, Becoming White? Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in American History and Cinema.
Biography
W. Bryan Rommel-Ruiz is Associate Professor of History at The Colorado College in Colorado Springs.
