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3) The Columbia companion to American history on film: how the movies have portrayed the American past
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American history has always been an irresistible source of inspiration for filmmakers, and today, for good or ill, most Americans sense of the past likely comes more from Hollywood than from the works of historians. In important films such as The Birth of a Nation (1915), -Roots (1977), Apocalypse Now (1979), and -Saving Private Ryan (1998), how much is entertainment and how much is rooted in historical fact? In The Columbia Companion to American...
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In this analysis of Robert Penn Warren's American vision, Ruppersburg finds a fusion of idealism and pragmatism emanating from Warren's view of the country's agricultural existence and his valuation of the past. Warren's concept of the great men in America who enable the envisioning of a nation helps explain his idealism. Ruppersburg avoids a rehash of familiar Warren themes, but looks at the author's racism, the delusions underlying American civilization,...
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No sooner had he arrived on American shores in 1942 than Saul Steinberg embarked on an artistic journey of discovery: an exploration, in witty, sometimes disturbing, sometimes hilarious drawings, of this vast and diverse country. Over the decades Americans found themselves - in the pages of The New Yorker and in dozens of exhibitions and collections both public and private - revealed, dis-covered, by an artist endowed with a rare understanding of...
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