Hollywood As Historian

" The films considered: The Birth of a Nation (1915), The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936), The River (1937), March of Time (1935-1953), City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936), The Great Dictator (1940), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Native Land (1942), Wilson (1944), The Negro Soldier (1944), The Snake Pit (1948), On the Waterfront (1954), Dr. Strangelove (1964), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), and Apocalypse Now (1979).

Acknowledgments

vii

(2)

Foreword

ix

RAY B. BROWNE

Introduction

1

(8)

PETER C. ROLLINS

1 Cultural History Written with Lightning: The Significance of The Birth of A Nation (1915)

9

(11)

EVERETT CARTER

2 Problems in Film History: How Fox Innovated Sound

20

(12)

DOUGLAS GOMERY

3 Ideology and Film Rhetoric: Three Documentaries of the New Deal Era (1936-1941)

32

(17)

PETER ROLLINS

4 Fighting Words: City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936), and The Great Dictator (1940)

49

(19)

IRA S. JAFFE

5 The Grapes of Wrath (1940): Thematic Emphasis through Visual Style

68

(20)

VIVIAN C. SOBCHACK

6 History with Lightning: The Forgotten Film Wilson (1944)

88

(21)

THOMAS KNOCK

7 The Negro Soldier (1944): Film Propaganda in Black and White

109

(25)

THOMAS CRIPPS

DAVID CULBERT

8 The Snake Pit (1948): The Sexist Nature of Sanity

134

(25)

LESLIE FISHBEIN

9 Ambivalence as a Theme in On the Waterfront (1954): An Interdisciplinary Approach to Film Study

159

(31)

KENNETH R. HEY

10 Dr. Strangelove (1964): Nightmare Comedy and the Ideology of Liberal Consensus

190

(21)

CHARLES MALAND

11 A Test of American Film Censorship: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

211

(19)

LEONARD J. LEFF

12 Apocalypse Now (1979): Joseph Conrad and the Television War

230

(16)

WILLIAM M. HAGEN

13 Film, Television, and American Studies: A 1998 Update

246

(24)

PETER C. ROLLINS

Film Data and Purchase Sources

270

(3)

Contributors

273

(3)

Index

276

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