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Hollywood's America
Understanding History Through Film
Steven Mintz (Author), Randy W. Roberts (Author), David Welky (Author)
9781118976494, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 23 February 2016
448 pages
24.4 x 17.3 x 2 cm, 0.689 kg
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.
List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Introduction: The Social and Cultural History of American Film 1 Part I The Silent Era 31 Introduction: Intolerance and the Rise of the Feature Film 31 1 Workers in Early Film 33 2 Silent Cinema as Historical Mythmaker 42 3 The Revolt Against Victorianism 51 4 Primary Sources 63 Edison v. American Mutoscope Company 63 “The Nickel Madness” 65 Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Commission of Ohio 68 Fighting a Vicious Film: Protest Against The Birth of a Nation 69 Boston Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1915 69 Analysis by Francis Hackett 69 “Seeing Our Boys ‘Over There’” 71 Part II Hollywood’s Golden Age 75 Introduction: Backstage During the Great Depression: 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, and Footlight Parade 75 5 Depression America and its Films 79 6 The Depression’s Human Toll 86 7 Depression Allegories 95 8 African Americans on the Silver Screen 104 9 Primary Sources 116 The Introduction of Sound 116 “Pictures That Talk” 116 Review of Don Juan 117 “Silence is Golden” 118 Film Censorship 120 The Sins of Hollywood, 1922 120 “The Don’ts and Be Carefuls” 122 The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 123 The State Department on Hollywood in Germany, 1934 133 The State Department on Hollywood in Latin America, 1934 134 Part III Hollywood in the World War II Era 137 Introduction: Hollywood’s World War II Combat Films 137 10 Movies and Great Britain 141 11 Blockbuster as Propaganda 156 12 John Wayne and Wartime Hollywood 166 13 The Woman’s Film 184 14 Primary Sources 191 Sumner Welles to Franklin Roosevelt, 1941 191 The 1941 Academy Awards: Hollywood and the President 192 Correspondence between Walter Wanger and Stephen Early 192 Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Academy Awards Dinner 195 Walter Wanger to Stephen Early 196 Madeleine Carroll to Franklin Roosevelt 196 U.S. Senate Subcommittee Hearings on Motion Picture and Radio Propaganda, 1941 196 Excerpts from The Government Information Manual for the Motion Picture Industry, 1942 200 Bureau of Motion Pictures Report: Casablanca 204 Part IV Postwar Hollywood 207 Introduction: Double Indemnity and Film Noir 207 15 The Red Scare in Hollywood 211 16 Movies Grow Up 219 17 The Morality of Informing 229 18 Science Fiction as Social Commentary 240 19 Primary Sources 250 United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1947) 250 Hearings Regarding the Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry 251 U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities, 1947 251 U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities, 1951 251 The Waldorf Statement, 1947 254 Part V Hollywood in an Age of Turmoil 257 Introduction: Bonnie and Clyde 257 20 The Dark Side of the 1960s 259 21 Films of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s 270 22 Film Capital and National Capital 279 23 Reaffirming Traditional Values 288 24 Presenting African Americans on Film 297 25 Coming to Terms with the Vietnam War 306 26 Primary Sources 324 Part VI Hollywood in the Post-studio Era 329 Introduction: A Changing Hollywood 329 27 Feminism and Recent American Film 331 28 The Screen and the Cross 349 29 Social Revolution on Screen 357 30 Encountering Distant Lands 369 31 Superheroes for the Twenty-First Century 384 32 Movies and the Construction of Historical Memory 392 Bibliography of Recent Books in American Film History 399 Index 425
Michael Shull, “Silent Agitators: Militant Labor in the Movies, 1909–1919”
Eric Niderost, “The Birth of a Nation”
Lary May, “Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and the New Personality”
Maury Klein, “Laughing Through Tears”
Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy, “Gangsters and Fallen Women”
Thomas H. Pauly, “Gone with the Wind and The Grapes of Wrath as Hollywood Histories of the Great Depression”
Thomas R. Cripps, “The Evolution of Black Film”
Michael Todd Bennett, “Anglophilia on Film: Creating an Atmosphere for Alliance, 1935–1941”
Randy Roberts, “You Must Remember This: The Case of Hal Wallis’s Casablanca”
Randy Roberts, “John Wayne Goes to War”
Jeanine Basinger, “When Women Wept”
Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy, “HUAC and the End of an Era”
Jennifer Holt, “Hollywood and Politics Caught in the Cold War Crossfire”
Kenneth R. Hey, “Ambivalence and On the Waterfront”
Stuart Samuels, “The Age of Conspiracy and Conformity: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)”
Charles Bane, “Worrying about the Bomb: Stanley Kubrick and the Nuclear War Film”
Michael Ryan and Douglas Kelner, “From Counterculture to Counterrevolution, 1967–1971”
Kathryn Cramer Brownell, “‘Politics is Show Business’: Hollywood and the New Politics”
Daniel J. Leab, “The Blue Collar Ethnic in Bicentennial America: Rocky”
Aram Goudsouzian, “The Rise and Fall of Sidney Poitier”
Randy Roberts and David Welky, “A Sacred Mission: Oliver Stone and Vietnam”
Raymond Caldiero to Herbert L. Porter, 1972
Aspasia Kotsopoulos, “Gendering Expectations: Genre and Allegory in Readings of Thelma and Louise”
Donna Bowman, “Christianity, Hollywood, and the Culture Wars”
Thomas Piontek, “Tears for Queers: Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, Hollywood, and American Attitudes toward Homosexuality”
Mark Graham, “The New Great Game: Rambo III, The Beast, and Charlie Wilson’s War”
Noel Murray, “Assembling Joss Whedon’s Avengers: The Modern Business of Blockbusters”
Steven Mintz, “Movies, History, and the Disneyfication of the Past: The Case of Pocahontas”
Subject Areas: History [HB]
