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America on Film: Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America
America on Film Modernism Documentary and a Changing America
Author: Sam B. Girgus
This study examines a selection of films made in the last quarter of the twentieth century in an effort to trace how the notion of "American" has changed drastically from that portrayed in American cinema up to the 1950s. In works such as Mississippi Masala, Lone Star, Malcolm X, Raging Bull, When We Were Kings and Bugsy Sam Girgus finds a new a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521810920
ISBN-10: 0521810922
Publication Date: 12/9/2002
Pages: 238
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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