American history goes to the movies : Hollywood and the American experience by Rommel-Ruiz, W. Bryan instant download

American history goes to the movies : Hollywood and the American experience by Rommel-Ruiz, W. Bryan instant download

viii, 296 p. ; 24 cm, Includes bibliographical references (p. [264]-289) and index, Exorcising the demons within : gender, race, and the problem of evil in American history and cinema -- Redeeming the south, redeeming the nation : representations of Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and Reconstruction in American film, television, and historical scholarship -- Envisioning and re-visioning America : Hollywood westerns and engaging the American past -- Historicizing triumphs and trajedies in the American west : the Hollywood western as cultural text in recent American history -- Immigration, the American dream, and the problem of the Irish American experience -- The European American and Mexican American immigration experience : the problem of narrative in American social history -- Beyond Dallas : history, narrative, and the struggle for meaning in the Kennedy assassination -- \"We are alive in hell\" : finding historical meaning and significance in 9/11