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Title: Hollywood As Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context by Peter C. Rollins ISBN: 0-8131-0951-5 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Pub. Date: December, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Terrific book for historians and humanists
Comment: HOLLYWOOD AS HISTORIAN is a widely-used
textbook with essays from the silent era
to Vietnam. In a world fascinated by the
connections between culture and movies, it
is a perfect launch pad for students and
general readers. (Be sure to get the 2nd
edition, published in 1998.)

This collection places the following films
in a cultural context:
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)
The River (1937)
Three by Chaplin: City Lights(1931),
Modern Times (1936),The Great Dictator (1941)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Wilson (1944)
The Negro Soldier (1944)
The Snake Pit (1948)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?(1966)
Apocalypse Now (1979)

The book closes with a review of sources of
print and video materials.

This book is a classic of its kind and is
used in classrooms across the country. Yet
it is good reading for anyone serious about
the study of motion pictures in relation to

American Studies.

Rating: 1
Summary: Don't Bother.
Comment: Text is didactic and coy to the point of being useless.

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