Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Lessons from Hollywood's American Revolution
- 2 Rattling the chains of history: Steven Spielberg's Amistad and ‘telling everyone's story’
- 3 Hollywood's Civil War dilemma: to imagine or unravel the nation?
- 4 Saving the Good War: Hollywood and World War II in the post-Cold War world
- 5 Oliver Stone and the decade of trauma
- 6 From Civil Rights to Black Nationalism: Hollywood v. black America?
- 7 Hollywood's post-Cold War history: the ‘righteousness’ of American interventionism
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Lessons from Hollywood's American Revolution
- 2 Rattling the chains of history: Steven Spielberg's Amistad and ‘telling everyone's story’
- 3 Hollywood's Civil War dilemma: to imagine or unravel the nation?
- 4 Saving the Good War: Hollywood and World War II in the post-Cold War world
- 5 Oliver Stone and the decade of trauma
- 6 From Civil Rights to Black Nationalism: Hollywood v. black America?
- 7 Hollywood's post-Cold War history: the ‘righteousness’ of American interventionism
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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- American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film , pp. vi - viiPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2005