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This anthology of documents and essays teaches students to read films as cultural artifacts within the contexts of actual past events. The films are studied as a reflection of their times and as an influence upon style and belief. Each major Part consists of essays on particular films or topics, followed by an assortment of primary documents; a 50-page bibliography of film history concludes the volume.

Steven Mintz is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History and Director of the American Cultures Program at the University of Houston. He is President-Elect of H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, an international consortium of scholars who use new technologies to advance teaching and research. His twelve books include the standard history of the American family, Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life (1988; co-authored with Susan Kellogg); and a major interpretation of antebellum reform, Moralists & Modernizers: America’s Pre-Civil War Reformers (1995). His most recent book, Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood (2004), received the Association of American Publishers R.R. Hawkins Award for the Outstanding Scholarly Book of 2004; the Organization of American Historians 2004 Merle Curti Award for the best book in social history; and the Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins Award for the best non-fiction book of 2004. For Blackwell he has edited African American Voices, Third Edition (2004), Mexican American Voices (2000), and Native American Voices, Second Edition (2000).

Randy W. Roberts is Professor of History at Purdue University and specializes in recent U.S. history, U.S. sports history, and the history of popular culture. He is the author of Where the Domino Fell: America and Vietnam, Fifth Edition (with James S. Olson, Blackwell, 2006), Charles A. Lindbergh: The Power and Peril of Celebrity 1927-1941 (with David Welky, Blackwell, 2003), A Line in the Sand: The Alamo in Blood and Memory (with James S. Olson, 2001), My Lai: A Brief History with Documents (with James S. Olson, 1998), and John Wayne American (with James S. Olson, 1996). Among his many sport history publications are (with David Welky) One For The Thumb: The New Steelers Reader (2006), The Rock, the Curse, and the Hub: A Random History of Boston Sports (2005), Jack Dempsey: The Manassa Mauler (2003), The Steelers Reader (with David Welky, 2001), Winning Is the Only Thing: Sports in America since 1945 (with James Olson, 1989), and Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of White Hopes (1983).

Preface
Introduction
The Silent Era
Introduction
Silent Film as Social Criticism
Silent Cinema as Historical Mythmaker
Silent Comedy as Cultural Commentary
Primary Sources
Hollywood's Golden Age
Introduction
Depression America and Its Films
The Depression's Human Toll
Depression Allegories
African Americans on the Silver Screen
Oson Wells as Poet and Historian
Primary Sources
Wartime Hollywood
Introduction
Wartime Films as Instruments of Propaganda
Casablanca as Propaganda
Bureau of Motion Pictures Report
How WW II Affected Women
Primary Source
Postwar Hollywood
Introduction
The Red Scare in Hollywood
A Perverse Tribute to Hollywood's Past
The Morality of Informing
Science Fiction as Social Commentary
The Western as Cold War Film
Primary Sources
Hollywood Since Vietnam
Introduction
A Shifting Sensibility
Films of the Late Sixties and Early Seventies
Reaffirming traditional Values
Coming to Terms with the Vietnam War
Films of the Eighties
Our Movie-Made President
Primary Source
Presenting African Americans on Film
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
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Hollywood's America: United States History Through Its Films, 3rd Edition

Hollywood's America: United States History Through Its Films, 3rd Edition

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