Hollywood's White House : the American presidency in film and history / edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

George Washington, The crossing, and revolutionary leadership / Stuart Leibiger -- The Adams chronicles : domesticating the American presidency / Scott F. Stoddart -- Jefferson in love : the farmer framed / Jim Welsh -- Abraham Lincoln in John Ford's The iron horse : both trumpets and silences / Andrew Piasecki -- Redeeming Lincoln, redeeming the South : representations of Abraham Lincoln in D.W. Grifith's The birth of a nation (1915) and historical scholarship / Bryan Rommel-Ruiz -- Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders : a century of leadership in film / J. Tillapaugh -- Wilson in technicolor : an appreciation / Donald E. Staples -- A juxtaposition of conflicting images : Hubert H. Humphrey and the television coverage of Chicago, 1968 / Jaap Kooijman -- Motion picture presidents of the 1930s : factual and fictional leaders for a time of crisis / Michael G. Krukones -- Gabriel over the White House (1933) : William Randolph Hearst's fascist solution for the Great Depression / Deborah Carmichael -- Populism, pragmatism, and political reinvention : the presidential motif in the films of Frank Capra / Ian Scott -- The absent president : Mr. Smith, The candidate, and Bulworth / Linda Alkana -- Who's in charge here? Technology and the presidency in Fail-safe (1964) and Colossus (1970) / Robert E. Hunter -- The 100 million$ men : presidential action/adventure heroes of Independence day (1996) and Air Force One (1997) / John Shelton Lawrence -- A man of his word : Aaron Sorkin's American presidents / Loren P. Quiring -- Hollywood's presidents, 1944-1996 : the primacy of character / Peter C. Rollins -- Richard Nixon as Dick (1999) and the comedic treatment of the presidency / Charlene Etkind -- "Biological business-as-usual" : the beast in Oliver Stone's Nixon / Donald Whaley -- Myth and reality in the Hollywood campaign film : Primary colors (1998) and The war room (1994) / Myron A. Levine -- Bestowing knighthood : the visual aspects of Bill Clinton's Camelot legacy / Luc Herman -- Hollywood, impersonation, and presidential celebrity in the 1990s / David Haven Blake -- Television satire and the presidency : the case of Saturday night live / John Matviko -- The transformed presidency : the Real presidency and Hollywood's Reel presidency / Myron A. Levine -- A filmography for images of American presidents in film / John Shelton Lawrence.