Hollywood's America: Understanding History Through Film

by Steven Mintz, Randy W Roberts, and David Welky

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Fully revised, updated, and extended, the fifth edition of Hollywood s America provides an important compilation of interpretive essays and primary documents that allows students to read films as cultural artifacts within the contexts of actual past events. * A new edition of this classic textbook, which ties movies into the broader narrative of US and film history * This fifth edition contains nine new chapters, with a greater overall emphasis on recent film history, and new primary source documents which are unavailable online * Entries range from the first experiments with motion pictures all the way to the present day * Well-organized within a chronological framework with thematic treatments to provide a valuable resource for students of the history of American film
  • ISBN13 9781118976500
  • Publish Date 29 December 2015
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Imprint Wiley-Blackwell