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Hollywood's America

Understanding History Through Film

Steven Mintz author David Welky author Randy W Roberts author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:23rd Feb '16

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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
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ISBN: 9781118976494

Dimensions: 244mm x 173mm x 20mm

Weight: 689g

448 pages

5th edition