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      United States History through Film since 1900

      Screening America

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      Screening America book

      United States History through Film since 1900
      ByJames Lorence
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2006
      eBook Published 7 October 2016
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315510293
      Pages 224
      eBook ISBN 9781315510293
      Subjects Humanities
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      Lorence, J. (2006). Screening America: United States History through Film since 1900 (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315510293

      ABSTRACT

      By combining the study of films with the text-based primary sources, Screening America gives students clear guidance in studying, interpreting, and understanding the motion picture's significance as a primary source in investigating U.S. History.Students will come to understand history as not only the record of what governments did, but also the way in which people lived their lives, experienced the wider world, and engaged in leisure pursuits, from which we can learn much about the society in which they lived.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |8 pages

      Introduction: The Analysis of Primary Sources

      chapter 1|10 pages

      Social Protest: A Corner in Wheat (1909) as Muckraking Film

      chapter 2|12 pages

      Cultural History Through a Cloudy Lens: The Birth of a Nation (1915) and the Racial Climate of Progressive America

      chapter 3|13 pages

      Social Change and Sexual Politics: Dancing Mothers (1926) and Moral Ambiguity in the Jazz Age

      chapter 4|11 pages

      The End of Romantic War: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and Disillusionment in the Interwar Era

      chapter 5|10 pages

      Making It in Depression America: The Street or the Stage in Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

      chapter 6|13 pages

      The Resilient People: The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Exposes Poverty in the Land of Plenty

      chapter 7|12 pages

      Thinking of Intervention: Foreign Correspondent (1940) and the Winds of War

      chapter 8|14 pages

      Government Persuasion: Prelude to War (1943), The Negro Soldier (1944), and the Issues of the War

      chapter 9|13 pages

      Social Unity in a Nation at War: Since You Went Away (1944) and Women’s Mobilization for Victory

      chapter 10|14 pages

      Hollywood’s Cold War: The Suppression of Salt of the Earth (1954)

      chapter 11|13 pages

      A Cautionary Tale: Dr. Strangelove (1964) as a Vision of Nuclear Endgame

      chapter 12|13 pages

      The Alienation Films of the 1960s: Alice’s Restaurant (1969), The Graduate (1967), and Social Fragmentation

      chapter 13|12 pages

      Worker Solidarity and Human Dignity: Norma Rae (1979) and Southern Labor Activism

      chapter 14|13 pages

      Coming Home (1978): Vietnam and the Uncertain Future of American Foreign Policy

      chapter 15|13 pages

      Unfinished Business: Do the Right Thing (1989) and the Escalation of Social Tension

      chapter 16|9 pages

      Suburban Anxiety in Modern America: American Beauty (1999) and the Pitfalls of Prosperity

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