Hollywood's America: Understanding History Through Film
- ISBN-10
- 1118976495
- ISBN-13
- 9781118976494
- Series
- Hollywood's America
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 448
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-03-07
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Authors
- David Welky, Steven Mintz, Randy W. Roberts
Description
Fully revised, updated, and extended, the fifth edition of Hollywood’s America provides an important compilation of interpretive essays and primary documents that allows students to read films as cultural artifacts within the contexts of actual past events. A new edition of this classic textbook, which ties movies into the broader narrative of US and film history This fifth edition contains nine new chapters, with a greater overall emphasis on recent film history, and new primary source documents which are unavailable online Entries range from the first experiments with motion pictures all the way to the present day Well-organized within a chronological framework with thematic treatments to provide a valuable resource for students of the history of American film
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