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Each chapter includes sections entitled “Historical Background,” “Analyzing the Film,” and “Thinking about Primary Sources,” “Historical Perspective,” primary sources, “Follow-Up Problems,” “Further Reading” and Filmography.
Preface.
Introduction: THE ANALYSIS OF PRIMARY SOURCES: AN INTRODUCTORY COMMENT.
Primary Sources and Critical Thinking.
The Motion Picture as Primary Source.
Reading Film: The Analytical Process.
Historical Background: The Origins of the Motion Picture Industry.
I. PROGRESSIVE AMERICA: MILITANT REFORM AND POSTWAR REACTION.
1. Social Protest: A Corner in Wheat (1909) as Muckraking Film.
Document 1. The Literary Inspiration for A Corner in Wheat.
Document 2. U.S. Senator Robert La Follette Attacks Financial Manipulators.
Document 3. The Selling of A Corner in Wheat.
Document 4. Critical Reaction to the Film.
2. Cultural History Through a Cloudy Lens: The Birth of a Nation (1915) and the Racial Climate of Progressive America.
Document 1. The NAACP Challenges Hollywood to Respect the Will of the National Board of Censorship.
Document 2. NAACP Mobilizes National Resistance to the Screening of a Racist Film.
Document 3. The Film's Producers React to the Threat of Censorship.
Document 4. NAACP Considers a Film as an Answer to The Birth of a Nation.
3. Social Change and Sexual Politics: Dancing Mothers (1926) and Moral Ambiguity in the Jazz Age.
Document 1. Elinor Glyn Describes “It.”
Document 2. A New Marriage Style Discussed by Fannie Hurst
Document 3. Suzanne La Follette Describes a New Attitude on Divorce
Document 4. Frederick Lewis Allen Assesses the Impact of the Movies and the Producers' Response to the Critics.
Document 5. The Motion Picture Code Prescribes Appropriate Treatment of Sexual Issues and Relationships.
4. The End of Romantic War: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and Disillusionment in the Interwar Era
Document 1. Determination to Avoid Another World War.
Document 2. The New York Times Reviewer Acknowledges Milestone's Achievement.
Document 3. Erich Maria Remarque Surveys War's Devastating Impact on Those Who Served.
II. A NATION UNDER STRESS: FROM THE DEPTHS OF ECONOMIC DESPAIR TO THE BRINK OF WAR.
5. Making It in Depression America: The Streets or the Stage as Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Document 1. A Recollection of the Bonus March.
Document 2. The Exhilarating Depression of FDR.
Document 3. Director Mervyn LeRoy Assesses the Market.
Document 4. A Social Historian Recalls Avoidance of Unpleasant Realities.
6. The Resilient People: The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Exposes Poverty in the Land of Plenty.
Document 1. A Migrant Mother.
Document 2. John Steinbeck Describes the Migrant Experience.
Document 3. Californians React to Steinbeck's Portrayal of Golden California.
Document 4. An “Okie” View of the Film from Woody Guthrie.
III. A DEMOCRACY OF WAR.
7. Thinking of Intervention: Foreign Correspondent (1940) and the Winds of War.
Document 1. Walter Wanger Describes the Impediments to the Production of Foreign Correspondent.
Document 2. A Hollywood Executive Sees a Connection Between Good Business, Good Propaganda, and Good Policy.
Document 3. Walter Wanger and Hollywood Internationalists Endorse Roosevelt's Leadership during the Prewar Crisis.
Document 4. Senator Gerald P. Nye Speaks Out for the Isolationists against Alleged Hollywood Propaganda.
Document 5. Wanger Recalls his Objective in the Production of Foreign Correspondent.
8. Government Persuasion: Prelude to War (1943), The Negro Soldier (1944), and the Issues of the War.
Document 1. The Army States Its Objectives for the Why We Fight Series.
Document 2. An Interdeparmental Analysis of Prelude to War Prepares the Way for Widespread Civilian Distribution.
Document 3. The Office of War Information's Director Explains the Agency's Reservations about Public Distribution of Prelude to War.
Document 4. Lowell Mellett Expresses the Bureau of Motion Picture's Reasons for Limited Distribution of Army Productions.
Document 5. The Hollywood War Activities Committee Promotes The Negro Soldier.
9. Social Unity in a Nation at War: Since You Went Away (1944) and Women's Mobilization for Victory.
Document 1. OWI Outlines Hollywood's Wartime Responsibilities.
Document 2. A Recollection of Wartime Sacrifice.
Document 3. A Wartime Analysis of Selznick's Work from Time.
Document 4. Visual Images of the Women's War.
IV. COLD WAR AMERICA: DOMESTIC ANTICOMMUNISM AND FEAR OF FAILURE.
10. Hollywood's Cold War: The Suppression of Salt of the Earth (1954).
Document 1. Congressman Donald L. Jackson Sounds the Alarm.
Document 2. Roy Brewer Promises Labor Action.
Document 3. Howard Hughes Outlines a Blueprint for Suppression.
Document 4. Paul Jarrico's Chronicle of External Harassment.
11. A Cautionary Tale: Dr. Strangelove as a Vision of Nuclear Endgame.
Document 1. SANE Launches the Debate over Nuclear Proliferation.
Document 2. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara Explains Assured Destruction.
Document 3. Journalist I.F.Stone Reads the Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Document 4. Terry Southern Recalls the Origins of Dr. Strangelove.
Document 5. Ambivalence in a New York Times Review.
12. The Alienation Films of the 1960s: Alice's Restaurant (1969), The Graduate, and Social Fragmentation.
Document 1. An Account of the “Crime of the Century.”
Document 2. The Producers Are Warned Against Possible Local Resistance to Alices Restaurant.
Document 3. Mixed Reviews Reflect Historial Context.
V. LEGACIES: TOWARD MODERN AMERICA.
13. Worker Solidarity and Human Dignity: Norma Rae (1979) and Southern Labor Activism.
Document 1. Crystal Lee Sutton Asserts the Need for Union Organization.
Document 2. Two Contemporary Evaluations of Norma Rae as a Depiction of Working Class Life.
Document 3. ACTWU Uses Norma Rae as an Organizing Tool.
14. Coming Home (1978): Vietnam and the Uncertain Future of American Foreign Policy.
Document 1. Jane Fonda's Radio Hanoi Broadcast
Document 2. A Reviewer's Analysis of Coming Home as a Statement on the Outcomes of the Vietnam War.
Document 3. Public Attitudes Toward the War.
Document 4. General Norman Schwartzkopf Assesses Vietnam's Impact on the Army.
Document 5. Cynicism in the Post-Vietnam Generation.
15. Unfinished Business: Do the Right Thing (1989) and the Escalation of Social Tension.
Document 1. The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders Outlines the Problems of Urban America.
Document 2. Spike Lee Explains Violence in His Film.
Document 3. Universal Studios Promotes Do the Right Thing.
Document 4. Roger Ebert's Analysis of Do the Right Thing.
Document 5. Lee Uses the Lyrics of Public Enemy's Recording, “Fight the Power” to Set a Tone for the Violence to Come.
16. Suburban Anxiety in Modern America: American Beauty (1999) and the Pitfalls of Prosperity.
Document 1. Director Sam Mendes Describes his First Reaction to the Script.
Document 2. Two Conflicting Critical Reactions to the Film.
Epilogue: Thinking About Your Movies.
Credits.
Index.
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David T Tinius
reviewed Screening America: United States History Through Film Since 1900 on December 06, 2014
Screening America: United States History Through Film Since 1900
Despite giving this book 4 stars I must admit I hated it. Not because it was a bad book - it's a brilliant book and obviously the only way to do a Python biography that gives out a true feeling of how the Pythons worked together - I hated it because as a Python fan, or indeed a fan of any comedy group, you have this idea in your head of a very idyllic "behind the scenes" relationship within the group where someone says a funny word, they all laugh, and run off into the sunset together. Perhaps that's just me, but reading this book I realized how much tension was actually behind all the funny stuff, and it sort of broke my heart. Not that that in anyway takes away the merit of the absolutely hilarious things that those six (now five) men has achieved since they officially became a group in '69; but to hear how much they struggled especially with regard to Graham's alcoholism and John's peculiar and stubborn tendencies can really be heartbreaking when you have this (completely unmerited) idealized idea of how the group dynamic worked. Furthermore it does give you very brusque images of how some of these men actually behave(d), which probably do not live up to the images that precedes the one you possess before reading this book.
Notwithstanding, the book is a great read for any Python fan because you really understand how much of a struggle and leap of faith these six took when they first came up with Flying Circus; their courage in what they were doing is awe-inspiring. It is also a great look into the deep and unreliable world of memories which the six have - the author has done a wonderful job by putting together all the "facts" where the Pythons contradict each other; like who said and did what right next to each other - then it's up to the reader who you choose to believe is the Python in the right in those instances! The interspersion of diary entries from Michael and Terry J also makes up a great source of "actual facts" about what happened when, etc. Graham's annoying habit of not having been present at the time the book was written is hardly felt as the author has clearly done his research in the material Graham himself wrote before he died, and by adding in the voice of his partner David Sherlock, his brother and sister-in-law.
There are funny moments throughout the book as the Pythons recollections take you through their history, but if you are looking for a laugh in true Python style I wouldn't recommend this book. Are you, however, interested in actually knowing something about the formation of the legendary comedy group and how it worked when they finally got together, then I would ask you why you haven't read this before now.
A brilliant - yet distressing - look into the greatest comedy group that ever existed.
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