TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smyth,J.E.
TI  - Reconstructing American historical cinema: from Cimarron to Citizen Kane 
SN  - 9780813192390 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - PN 1995.9 S667r 2009
U1  - 791.43 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Historical films
KW  - United States
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Motion pictures and history
KW  - Películas históricas
KW  - Historia y crítica
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Cine e historia
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-433) and index; List of illustrations --  Acknowledgments --  Introduction : toward a filmic writing of history in classical Hollywood --  [pt]. 1. Traditional and modern American history --  1. The --  new American history : Cimarron, 1931. 2. Contemporary history in the Age of Scarface, 1932. [pt]. 2. Resolving westward expansion --  3. Competing frontiers, 1933-1938. 4. The --  return of our epic America, 1938-1941. [pt]. 3. Civil War and Reconstruction --  5. Jezebels and rebels, cavaliers and compromise, 1930-1939 -. 6. The --  lives and deaths of Abraham Lincoln, 1930-1941. [pt]. 4. Veterans of different wars --  7. War in the Roaring Twenties, 1932-1939. 8. The --  last of the long hunters, 1938-1941. [pt]. 5. Hollywood history --  9. Stars born and lost, 1932-1937. 10. A. Hollywood cavalcade, 1939-1942. Conclusion : From Land of Liberty to the decline and fall of Citizen Kane --  Appendixes --  Notes --  Selected bibliography --  Index
N2  - Explores Hollywood's pivotal interpretations of national history during the height of the studio system. This work uncovers Hollywood's diverse and conflicted attitudes toward American history in narratives including nineteenth-century frontier epics, gangster biopics, and histories of silent-era Hollywood
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0615/2006020064.html
ER  -