Reconstructing American Historical Cinema: From Cimarron to Citizen Kane

"Hollywood's popular and often controversial cycle of historical films from 1931 to 1942 confronted issues as diverse as frontier racism and women's experiences in the nineteenth-century South, the decline of American society following the First World War, the rise of Al Capone, and the tragic history of Hollywood's silent era. Looking at rarely discussed archival material, Smyth focuses on classical Hollywood filmmakers' adaptation and scripting of traditional historical discourse and their critical revision of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American history."--BOOK JACKET.

Author(s): J.E. Smyth
Published: 2006-10-27
Pages: 472
Categories: History