Writing history with lightning: cinematic representations of nineteenth-century America
"As opposed to previous volumes focused on topics like slavery or the West, Writing History with Lightning edited by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and John C. Inscoe offers an expansive look at how films represent the history of nineteenth-century America and, in turn, how those depictions influe...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "As opposed to previous volumes focused on topics like slavery or the West, Writing History with Lightning edited by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and John C. Inscoe offers an expansive look at how films represent the history of nineteenth-century America and, in turn, how those depictions influence the ways in which mass audiences remember, envision, and reimagine the nation's past. Across twenty-six essays, a group of prominent historians, including Catherine Clinton, Kenneth Greenberg, and Marcus Rediker, moves beyond separating fact from fiction to consider the raw power that movies possess in influencing broad interpretations of American history"-- |
| Beschreibung: | ix, 335 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
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| 505 | 8 | |a Introduction : reappraising a century's worth of lightning / Matthew Christopher Hulbert -- I. Frontiers, empire, and the early nation. The far horizons : the Lewis and Clark saga as a surfeit of stereotypes / Donna J. Barbie -- We are Melville's monsters : In the heart of the sea as eco-horror in the age of climate change / Brian Rouleau -- "Some say he's dead, some say he never will be" : mountain men and the frontier-hero myth in Jeremiah Johnson and The revenant / Jacob F. Lee -- Andrew Jackson and the ladies : The gorgeous hussy and The president's lady / John F. Marszalek -- Delineating Davy, defining ourselves : The Alamo in 1960 and in 2004 / James E. Crisp -- II. Slavery and the antebellum South. A fugitive slave in southern Appalachia : The journey of August King / John C. Inscoe -- Birth and rebirth : filming Nat Turner in the age of fake news / Kenneth S. Greenberg -- History white-washed : reflections on Steven Spielberg's Amistad / Marcus Rediker -- | |
| 505 | 8 | |a "I survive" : individual, community, and slavery in Steve McQueen's 12 years a slave / William L. Andrews -- "Now you are ready for Mandingo" : sex, slavery, and historical realism / Diane Miller Sommerville -- Mint julep melodrama : Jezebel / Catherine Clinton -- III. Sectional crisis and civil war. From "Bleeding Kansas" to Harpers Ferry via Santa Fe Trail / Nicole Etcheson -- Abraham Lincoln on film / Michael Burlingame -- Glory : "heroism writ large, from people whom history had made small" / John David Smith -- "And does it matter, after all, who wins?" : the movie Gettysburg and popular perceptions of the Civil War / Lesley J. Gordon -- Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York : racial ambiguity in New York City's Five Points / Graham Russell Gao Hodges -- The assassin's accomplices : guilt, innocence, and redemption in The prisoner of Shark Island and The conspirator / Jonathan D. Sarris -- | |
| 505 | 8 | |a IV. The lost cause, Reconstruction, and the West. Historical to a fault : Gary Ross, Free state of Jones, and the (eventual) destruction of the lost cause / Joseph M. Beilein Jr. -- Sommersby : identity, imposture, and (re)construction in the post-Civil War South / Tom Lee -- Knights of the twenty Years' War : race and American exceptionalism in The hateful eight / Matthew E. Stanley -- The silver lining of "bad history" at the movies : Reconstruction, Confederate exiles, and The undefeated / Matthew Christopher Hulbert -- Custer's last stands : remaking a frontier legend in Hollywood film / Kevin Waite -- V. Late-century economics and immigration. Far and away : the stereotype of the Irish immigrant story / Ryan W. Keating -- Silver screen, Bright leaf : Hollywood's cigarette habit / Drew A. Swanson -- Adaptation and autonomy on the Lower East Side : the Jews of Hester Street / Stephen J. Whitfield -- | |
| 505 | 8 | |a "We've taken old gods and given them new names" : the spirit of Sankofa in Daughters of the dust / Allison Dorsey | |
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| contents | Introduction : reappraising a century's worth of lightning / Matthew Christopher Hulbert -- I. Frontiers, empire, and the early nation. The far horizons : the Lewis and Clark saga as a surfeit of stereotypes / Donna J. Barbie -- We are Melville's monsters : In the heart of the sea as eco-horror in the age of climate change / Brian Rouleau -- "Some say he's dead, some say he never will be" : mountain men and the frontier-hero myth in Jeremiah Johnson and The revenant / Jacob F. Lee -- Andrew Jackson and the ladies : The gorgeous hussy and The president's lady / John F. Marszalek -- Delineating Davy, defining ourselves : The Alamo in 1960 and in 2004 / James E. Crisp -- II. Slavery and the antebellum South. A fugitive slave in southern Appalachia : The journey of August King / John C. Inscoe -- Birth and rebirth : filming Nat Turner in the age of fake news / Kenneth S. Greenberg -- History white-washed : reflections on Steven Spielberg's Amistad / Marcus Rediker -- "I survive" : individual, community, and slavery in Steve McQueen's 12 years a slave / William L. Andrews -- "Now you are ready for Mandingo" : sex, slavery, and historical realism / Diane Miller Sommerville -- Mint julep melodrama : Jezebel / Catherine Clinton -- III. Sectional crisis and civil war. From "Bleeding Kansas" to Harpers Ferry via Santa Fe Trail / Nicole Etcheson -- Abraham Lincoln on film / Michael Burlingame -- Glory : "heroism writ large, from people whom history had made small" / John David Smith -- "And does it matter, after all, who wins?" : the movie Gettysburg and popular perceptions of the Civil War / Lesley J. Gordon -- Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York : racial ambiguity in New York City's Five Points / Graham Russell Gao Hodges -- The assassin's accomplices : guilt, innocence, and redemption in The prisoner of Shark Island and The conspirator / Jonathan D. Sarris -- IV. The lost cause, Reconstruction, and the West. Historical to a fault : Gary Ross, Free state of Jones, and the (eventual) destruction of the lost cause / Joseph M. Beilein Jr. -- Sommersby : identity, imposture, and (re)construction in the post-Civil War South / Tom Lee -- Knights of the twenty Years' War : race and American exceptionalism in The hateful eight / Matthew E. Stanley -- The silver lining of "bad history" at the movies : Reconstruction, Confederate exiles, and The undefeated / Matthew Christopher Hulbert -- Custer's last stands : remaking a frontier legend in Hollywood film / Kevin Waite -- V. Late-century economics and immigration. Far and away : the stereotype of the Irish immigrant story / Ryan W. Keating -- Silver screen, Bright leaf : Hollywood's cigarette habit / Drew A. Swanson -- Adaptation and autonomy on the Lower East Side : the Jews of Hester Street / Stephen J. Whitfield -- "We've taken old gods and given them new names" : the spirit of Sankofa in Daughters of the dust / Allison Dorsey |
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| spelling | Writing history with lightning cinematic representations of nineteenth-century America edited by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and John C. Inscoe Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press [2019] © 2019 ix, 335 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Introduction : reappraising a century's worth of lightning / Matthew Christopher Hulbert -- I. Frontiers, empire, and the early nation. The far horizons : the Lewis and Clark saga as a surfeit of stereotypes / Donna J. Barbie -- We are Melville's monsters : In the heart of the sea as eco-horror in the age of climate change / Brian Rouleau -- "Some say he's dead, some say he never will be" : mountain men and the frontier-hero myth in Jeremiah Johnson and The revenant / Jacob F. Lee -- Andrew Jackson and the ladies : The gorgeous hussy and The president's lady / John F. Marszalek -- Delineating Davy, defining ourselves : The Alamo in 1960 and in 2004 / James E. Crisp -- II. Slavery and the antebellum South. A fugitive slave in southern Appalachia : The journey of August King / John C. Inscoe -- Birth and rebirth : filming Nat Turner in the age of fake news / Kenneth S. Greenberg -- History white-washed : reflections on Steven Spielberg's Amistad / Marcus Rediker -- "I survive" : individual, community, and slavery in Steve McQueen's 12 years a slave / William L. Andrews -- "Now you are ready for Mandingo" : sex, slavery, and historical realism / Diane Miller Sommerville -- Mint julep melodrama : Jezebel / Catherine Clinton -- III. Sectional crisis and civil war. From "Bleeding Kansas" to Harpers Ferry via Santa Fe Trail / Nicole Etcheson -- Abraham Lincoln on film / Michael Burlingame -- Glory : "heroism writ large, from people whom history had made small" / John David Smith -- "And does it matter, after all, who wins?" : the movie Gettysburg and popular perceptions of the Civil War / Lesley J. Gordon -- Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York : racial ambiguity in New York City's Five Points / Graham Russell Gao Hodges -- The assassin's accomplices : guilt, innocence, and redemption in The prisoner of Shark Island and The conspirator / Jonathan D. Sarris -- IV. The lost cause, Reconstruction, and the West. Historical to a fault : Gary Ross, Free state of Jones, and the (eventual) destruction of the lost cause / Joseph M. Beilein Jr. -- Sommersby : identity, imposture, and (re)construction in the post-Civil War South / Tom Lee -- Knights of the twenty Years' War : race and American exceptionalism in The hateful eight / Matthew E. Stanley -- The silver lining of "bad history" at the movies : Reconstruction, Confederate exiles, and The undefeated / Matthew Christopher Hulbert -- Custer's last stands : remaking a frontier legend in Hollywood film / Kevin Waite -- V. Late-century economics and immigration. Far and away : the stereotype of the Irish immigrant story / Ryan W. Keating -- Silver screen, Bright leaf : Hollywood's cigarette habit / Drew A. Swanson -- Adaptation and autonomy on the Lower East Side : the Jews of Hester Street / Stephen J. Whitfield -- "We've taken old gods and given them new names" : the spirit of Sankofa in Daughters of the dust / Allison Dorsey "As opposed to previous volumes focused on topics like slavery or the West, Writing History with Lightning edited by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and John C. Inscoe offers an expansive look at how films represent the history of nineteenth-century America and, in turn, how those depictions influence the ways in which mass audiences remember, envision, and reimagine the nation's past. Across twenty-six essays, a group of prominent historians, including Catherine Clinton, Kenneth Greenberg, and Marcus Rediker, moves beyond separating fact from fiction to consider the raw power that movies possess in influencing broad interpretations of American history"-- Geschichte gnd rswk-swf History in motion pictures Historical films / United States / History and criticism Historischer Film (DE-588)4160024-1 gnd rswk-swf USA Motiv (DE-588)4121832-2 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf (DE-588)4143413-4 Aufsatzsammlung gnd-content USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g Historischer Film (DE-588)4160024-1 s USA Motiv (DE-588)4121832-2 s Geschichte z DE-604 Hulbert, Matthew C. (DE-588)1132271592 edt Inscoe, John C. 1951- (DE-588)136345689 edt Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF 978-0-8071-7089-2 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB 978-0-8071-7090-8 |
| spellingShingle | Writing history with lightning cinematic representations of nineteenth-century America Introduction : reappraising a century's worth of lightning / Matthew Christopher Hulbert -- I. Frontiers, empire, and the early nation. The far horizons : the Lewis and Clark saga as a surfeit of stereotypes / Donna J. Barbie -- We are Melville's monsters : In the heart of the sea as eco-horror in the age of climate change / Brian Rouleau -- "Some say he's dead, some say he never will be" : mountain men and the frontier-hero myth in Jeremiah Johnson and The revenant / Jacob F. Lee -- Andrew Jackson and the ladies : The gorgeous hussy and The president's lady / John F. Marszalek -- Delineating Davy, defining ourselves : The Alamo in 1960 and in 2004 / James E. Crisp -- II. Slavery and the antebellum South. A fugitive slave in southern Appalachia : The journey of August King / John C. Inscoe -- Birth and rebirth : filming Nat Turner in the age of fake news / Kenneth S. Greenberg -- History white-washed : reflections on Steven Spielberg's Amistad / Marcus Rediker -- "I survive" : individual, community, and slavery in Steve McQueen's 12 years a slave / William L. Andrews -- "Now you are ready for Mandingo" : sex, slavery, and historical realism / Diane Miller Sommerville -- Mint julep melodrama : Jezebel / Catherine Clinton -- III. Sectional crisis and civil war. From "Bleeding Kansas" to Harpers Ferry via Santa Fe Trail / Nicole Etcheson -- Abraham Lincoln on film / Michael Burlingame -- Glory : "heroism writ large, from people whom history had made small" / John David Smith -- "And does it matter, after all, who wins?" : the movie Gettysburg and popular perceptions of the Civil War / Lesley J. Gordon -- Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York : racial ambiguity in New York City's Five Points / Graham Russell Gao Hodges -- The assassin's accomplices : guilt, innocence, and redemption in The prisoner of Shark Island and The conspirator / Jonathan D. Sarris -- IV. The lost cause, Reconstruction, and the West. Historical to a fault : Gary Ross, Free state of Jones, and the (eventual) destruction of the lost cause / Joseph M. Beilein Jr. -- Sommersby : identity, imposture, and (re)construction in the post-Civil War South / Tom Lee -- Knights of the twenty Years' War : race and American exceptionalism in The hateful eight / Matthew E. Stanley -- The silver lining of "bad history" at the movies : Reconstruction, Confederate exiles, and The undefeated / Matthew Christopher Hulbert -- Custer's last stands : remaking a frontier legend in Hollywood film / Kevin Waite -- V. Late-century economics and immigration. Far and away : the stereotype of the Irish immigrant story / Ryan W. Keating -- Silver screen, Bright leaf : Hollywood's cigarette habit / Drew A. Swanson -- Adaptation and autonomy on the Lower East Side : the Jews of Hester Street / Stephen J. Whitfield -- "We've taken old gods and given them new names" : the spirit of Sankofa in Daughters of the dust / Allison Dorsey History in motion pictures Historical films / United States / History and criticism Historischer Film (DE-588)4160024-1 gnd USA Motiv (DE-588)4121832-2 gnd |
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