The Hollywood Historical Film by Burgoyne, Robert

The Hollywood Historical Film (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781405146029)

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Format: Hardcover
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The Hollywood Historical Film by Burgoyne, Robert

The Hollywood Historical Film

$132.95
The Hollywood Historical Film by Burgoyne, Robert

The Hollywood Historical Film

$132.95
Format: Hardcover
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A comprehensive analysis of the historical film--a popular and controversial genre that's been with us since the early days of cinema--and Hollywood's unique ability to reshape our viewpoints while it sensually recreates the past.
  • Provides a complete guide to the unique characteristics of historical film, distinguishing among sub-genres such as historical epics, war films, biographies, topical films, and meta-historic works like Nixon and JFK
  • Offers detailed analyses of groundbreaking films such as Spartacus, Schindler's List, and United 93
  • Examines the dual role of the historical film to entertain and educate, with its tendency to arouse critical and popular controversy
  • Stimulates discussion about Hollywood's power to persuade and reshape our views of the past


Author: Robert Burgoyne
ISBN-10: 1405146028
ISBN-13: 9781405146029
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 02/11/2008
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.43w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 319
By Robert Burgoyne
By Robert Burgoyne
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Robert Burgoyne is Professor of English and Film Studies at Wayne State University. He is the author of Bertolucci's 1900: A Narrative and Historical Analysis; Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History; and coauthor, with Robert Stam and Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, of New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics.

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