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America on film
Hollywood and American history
By Cameron, Kenneth M.
- ISBN
- 978-0-82641-033-7
- Publisher
- New York : Continuum, 1997.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 1997
Can movies reflect history and still entertain? Do movies sometimes make history? How do we understand that after D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking but racist 1915 epic The Birth of a Nation opened, interest and membership in the KKK increased? These books grapple with such questions, albeit in an uninspired way. Cameron (Africa on Film, Continuum, 1996) takes a broad view, critiquing films by decade and classifying them by genres. Gaps are bound to occur in such a survey, but this book ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
