Books written by Peter C. Rollins
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Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History
See U.S. Civil War film genre Clansman, The (Dixon) Clark, Bennett Champ Clark, Dane Clark, D. Worth Clay, Lucius D. Cleopatra (1963) Clift, Montgomery; The Big Lift Clinton, Bill: foreign policy of; and international crises; ...
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Hollywood as Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context
Coins fill the barber's pudding , and a metallic rattle rises from his stomach . The tramp's art of mime and dance is transformed by Hynkel into a lethal , narcissistic ballet with the balloon globe . The tramp's playful , libidinal ...
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Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History
In 1969, after Vietnam and a scrape with the law over marijuana possession, Stone enrolled in the New York University film program, where he studied with Martin Scorsese. After moving to Hollywood in 1976 Stone served as coauthor on a ...
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Hollywood's West: The American Frontier in Film, Television, and History
This volume examines classic Western films and programs that span nearly a century, from Cimarron (1931) to Turner Network Television's recent made-for-TV movies.
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Hollywood's White House: The American Presidency in Film and History
Through textual and visual symbolism, Ulysses Grant, Thomas Jefferson, Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman—and most especially, Abraham Lincoln—cast long shadows over Capra's protagonists and spread their iconic values throughout his films.
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The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past
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.
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Hollywood's West: The American Frontier in Film, Television, & History
The American Frontier in Film, Television, & History Peter C. Rollins, John E. O'Connor ... Native Americans in Films. Trenton: New Jersey State Museum, 1980. ... An Ambush of Ghosts: A Personal Guide to Favorite Western Film Locations.
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Hollywood As Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context
The visual awareness promoted by this text has immediate application, in that students can begin to consider the impact of motion pictures (and television) on their own lives.
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The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past
Daniel K. Richter goes farther , and , citing Moffitt and Sebastian's O Brave New People ( 1996 ) , suggests that what Columbus meant by describing his discovery as “ Paradise - on - Earth ” was that he had found " a specific place ...
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Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age
Why has television become such a respected authority? What falsehoods enter our collective memory as truths? How is one to know what is real and what is imagined—or ignored—by producers, directors, or writers?
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Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History
Bohn, Thomas W. An Historical and Descriptive Analysis of the “Why We Fight” Series. New York: Arno, 1977. Chambers, John W., and David H. Culbert, eds. World War II, Film, and History. New York: Oxford UP, 1996.
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The West Wing: The American Presidency as Television Drama
The Gatekeeper: My 30 Years as a TV Censor Alfred R. Schneider, with Kaye Pullen Gen X TV: The Brady Bunch to Melrose Place Rob Owen Lou Grant: The Making of TV's Top Newspaper Drama Douglass K. Daniel Prime-Time Authorship: Works about ...
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Hollywood's Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film
This updated edition includes a new chapter on Smoke Signals, the groundbreaking independent film written by Sherman Alexie and directed by Chris Eyre.
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Hollywood As Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context
The visual awareness promoted by this text has immediate application, in that students can begin to consider the impact of motion pictures (and television) on their own lives.
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Gender in Popular Culture: Images of Men and Women in Literature, Visual Media, and Material Culture
Gender in Popular Culture: Images of Men and Women in Literature, Visual Media, and Material Culture
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Hollywood's Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film
"The bloodthirsty savage, whooping and screaming and eager to scalp any white man who dared travel west, has been a staple of film since the earliest days of the medium....
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Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age
The process of establishing the character in a frontier setting reflects an ambivalent misfit status , in which she is ... Despite her lack of frontier skills and knowledge , which readily mark her as an " outsider , " she immediately ...
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The West Wing: The American Presidency as Television Drama
This collection introduces readers to the sensibilities to appreciate the show's nuances and the necessary knowledge to avoid any misreadings. It will be of interest to students of politics, popular culture, fans and critics alike.
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Hollywood's White House: The American Presidency in Film and History
With reflections on portrayals of Washington, Adams, Lincoln, FDR, Nixon, and more, this volume, which includes a comprehensive filmography and a bibliography, is ideal for both historians and film enthusiasts. “An engaging collection.” ...
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Hollywood's White House: The American Presidency in Film and History
The volume, which includes a comprehensive filmography and a bibliography, is ideal for historians and film enthusiasts.