The Columbia companion to American history on film : how the movies have portrayed the American past / edited by Peter C. Rollins.
American history has always been an irresistible source of inspiration for filmmakers, and today, for good or ill, most Americans sense of the past likely comes more from Hollywood than from the works of historians. In important films such as The Birth of a Nation (1915), -Roots (1977), Apocalypse N...
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Other Authors: | Rollins, Peter C. |
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2003]
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