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Introduction
Part I. Eras
The Puritan Era and the Puritan Mind, by Edward Ingebretson
The 1890s, by Joseph Millichap
The 1920s, by John Tibbetts
The 1930s, by Carlton Jackson
The 1960s, by Chris Lovett
The 1970s, by Zia Hasan
The 1980s, by William J. Palmer
Part II. Wars and Other Major Events
The American Revolution, by Cotten Seiler
The Civil War and Reconstruction, by Alicia BrowneLawrence Kreiser
The Cold War, by Phil Landon
The Korean War, by Phil Landon
The Mexican-American War and the Spanish-American War, by James Yates
The Vietnam War, by Peter C. Rollins
Westward Expansion and the Indian Wars, by James Sandos
World War I, by Peter C. Rollins
World War II: Documentaries, by Peter C. Rollins
World War II: Feature Films, by Robert Fyne
Part III. Notable People
The Antebellum Frontier Hero, by Mike Birdwell
Christopher Columbus, by Anthony Chase
The Founding Fathers, by Cotten Seiler
Indian Leaders, by Robert Baird
The Kennedys, by Harris J. Elder
Abraham Lincoln, by Martin Jackson
Richard Nixon, by Don Whaley
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, by Michael Shull
Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, by Douglass Noverr
Harry S. Truman, by Martin Jackson
George Washington, by John D. Thomas
Part IV. Groups
African Americans After World War II, by Michael Shull
Arab Americans, by Jack G. Shaheen
Asian Americans, by Terry Hong
Catholic Americans, by Peter Holloran
Children and Teenagers in the Twentieth Century, by Ron Green
Irish Americans, by Peter Holloran
Italian Americans, by Stacey Donahue
Jewish Americans, by Solomon Davidoff
MexicanAmericans, by Scott Baugh
Native Americans, by Jacqueline Kilpatrick
Radicals and Radicalism, by Michael ShullDavid Wilt
Robber Barons, Media Moguls, and Power Elites, by Michael ShullDavid Wilt
Women from the Colonial Era to 1900, by Sarah Pearsall
Women in the Twentieth Century, by June Sochen
Part V. Institutions and Movements
Baseball, by Gregory McNamee
City and State Government, by Thomas HalperDouglas MuzzioJessica Muzzio
Civil Rights, by Ray Arsenault
Congress, by Anthony Chase
The Family, by Steve Mintz
Football, by Dale Herbeck
Journalism and the Media, by Robert Baird
The Labor Movement and the Working Class, by Michael ShullDavid Wilt
Militias and Extremist Political Movements, by Michael J. Riley
The Political Machine, by James Hanlan
The Presidency After World War II, by Peter C. Rollins
Private Schools, by Ron Briley
Public High Schools, by Ron Briley
Part VI. Places
The Midwest, by John Tibbetts
The "New" West and the New Western, by James Hanlan
New York City, by Joe Dorinson George Lankevich
The Sea, by Mary Malloy
The Small Town, by John Tibbetts
The South, by Owen Gilman
Space, by Michael DenisonSusan Opt
Suburbia, by David Wilt
Texas and the Southwest, by Mark Busby
The Trans-Appalachian West, by Mike Birdwell
Part VII. Themes and Topics
Crime and the Mafia, by Ron Wilson
Drugs, Tobacco, and Alcohol, by Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman
Elections and Party Politics, by Anthony Chase
Feminism and Feminist Films, by June Sochen
Railroads, by Joseph Millichap
Sexuality, by Bill Brigman
Slavery, by Robert B. Toplin
Part VIII. Myths and Heroes
The American Adam, by Charles Maland
The American Fighting Man, by Robert Doyle
Democracy and Equality, by Thomas Doherty
The Frontier and the West, by R. Phillip Loy
Hollywood's Detective, by David Wilt
The Machine in the Garden, by John Tibbetts
Success and the Self-Made Man, by Hannu Salmi
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reviewed The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past on May 21, 2018
The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past
I went into this book with a pre-conceived notion that this book would approach its topic from a different approach taken, i.e. how modern films have (mis)appropriated ancient Roman sources to create new cultural narratives that have warped our understanding of Roman society, politics etc. However Wyke doesn't quite stay on that (admittedly narrow) academic remit. In fact, she creates a complex alternative comparative analysis that arguably does more to explore the phenomenon of ancient Rome on film than my original expectation. She has in fact deconstructed the idea of 'ancient Roman cinema' to form a multi-faceted narrative that takes into account Italian nationalism, American perceptions of empire and republicanism, Orientalism, commodification and commercialisation of antiquity, the aesthetics of Victorian novels and theatre, and the depiction of eroticism in the examined films.
By taking a thematic, case study approach Wyke does an excellent job of identifying and elaborating on each of the points she makes about the films. For example, her references to Said's Orientalism as a means to interpret the cinematic representations of Cleopatra are rather illuminating and pertinent. The same goes for the (obvious) socialist and communist aspects of 'Spartacus', and the lesser obvious Zionist message in the Kubrick/Trumbo/Douglas version. It was also intriguing to read of the gangster film correlations in the RKO version of 'The Last Days of Pompeii'.
Perhaps the most important conclusions that may be drawn from Wyke's very rewarding analysis of the cinematic depiction of ancient Rome are that the films are cultural artefacts that owe arguably more to the respective socio-political environments within which they are produced (i.e. Italian or American cinema) and that they are drastically removed from 'ancient history', except where said ancient Roman history can provide a setting, a narrative, characters and a subtext that conforms to contemporary values.
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