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hardcover. Condizione: Good. DETAILS: pencil notes in margins on about 20 pages, otherwise still very good copy. MINTZ, STEVEN, 1953- / ROBERTS, RANDY, 1951-, ed. . Hollywood's America: twentieth-century America through film. Chichester ; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, 4th edition, xi, 398pp., . Fully revised, updated, and extended, this compilation of interpretive essays and primary documents teaches students to read films as cultural artifacts within the contexts of actual past events. - CONTENTS: Part I. The silent era. Introduction: Intolerance and the rise of the feature film -- Silent cinema as social criticism: "Front page movies" / Kay Sloan -- Silent cinema as historical mythmaker: "The birth of a nation" / Eric Niderost -- The revolt against Victorianism: "Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and the new personality" / Lary May -- Primary sources. Edison v. American Mutoscope Company -- "The nickel madness" -- Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Commission of Ohio -- Fighting a vicious film: Protest against The birth of a nation -- Boston Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1915 -- Analysis by Francis Hackett -- Part II. Hollywood's golden age. Introduction: Backstage during the Great Depression: 42nd Street, Gold diggers of 1933, and Footlight parade -- Depression America and its films: "Laughing through tears" / Maury Klein -- The Depression's human toll: Gangsters and fallen women / Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy -- Depression allegories: Gone with the wind and The grapes of wrath as Hollywood histories of the Great Depression / Thomas H. Pauly -- African Americans on the silver screen: The evolution of black film / Thomas R. Cripps -- Primary sources. The introduction of sound -- Pictures that talk -- Review of Don Juan -- Silence is golden -- Film censorship -- The sins of Hollywood, 1922 -- The don'ts and be carefuls -- The motion picture production code of 1930 -- Part III. Wartime Hollywood. Introduction: Hollywood's World War II combat films -- Casablanca as propaganda: You must remember this: The case of Hal Wallis' Casablanca / Randy Roberts -- Bureau of motion pictures report: Casablanca -- John Wayne and wartime Hollywood: John Wayne goes to war / Randy Roberts -- The woman's film: When women wept / Jeanine Basinger -- Primary sources. US Senate subcommittee hearings on motion picture and radio propaganda, 1941 -- Part IV. Postwar Hollywood. Introduction: Double indemnity and film noir -- The red scare in Hollywood : HUAC and the end of an era / Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy -- The morality of informing: Ambivalence and On the waterfront / Kenneth R. Hey -- Science fiction as social commentary: The age of conspiracy and conformity: Invasion of the body snatchers (1956) / Stuart Samuels -- The western as Cold War film: Gunfighters and Green Berets: The magnificent seven and the myth of counter-insurgency / Richard Slotkin -- Popular culture in the age of white flight: Film noir, Disneyland, and the Cold War (sub)urban imaginary / Eric Avila -- Primary sources. United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1947) -- Hearings regarding the Communist infiltration of the motion picture industry -- US House of Representatives Committee on un-American Activites, 1947 -- US House of Representatives Committee on un-American Activites, 1951 -- The miracle decision -- Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson, Commissioner of Education of New York, et al. (1952) -- Part V. Hollywood and the tumultuous 1960s. Introduction: Bonnie and Clyde -- A shifting sensibility: Dr. Strangeglove: Nightmare comedy and the ideology of liberal consensus / Charles Maland -- Films of the late 1960s and early 1970s: From counterculture to counterrevolution, 1967-1971 / Michael Ryan and Douglas Kelner -- Reaffirming traditional values: The blue collar ethnic in bicentennial America: Rocky / Daniel J. Leab -- Presenting African Americans on film: The rise and fall of Sidney Poitier / Aram Goudsouzian -- Coming to terms with the Vietnam War: A sacred mission: Oliver Stone and Vietnam / Randy Roberts and David Welky -- Primary sources. The Hollywood rating system, 1968 -- Part VI. Hollywood in our time. Introduction: A changing Hollywood -- Feminism and recent American film: Gendering expectations: Genre and Allegory in readings of Thelma and Louise / Aspasia Kotsopoulos -- Hollywood remembers World War II: Saving private Ryan and postwar memory in America / John Bodnar -- East meets West: The Asian invasion (of multiculturalism) in Hollywood / Minh-Ha T. Pham -- Immigration at the movies: The immigrant in film: Evolution of an illuminating icon / Carlos E. Cortes -- Movies and the construction of historical memory: Movies, history, and the Disneyfication of the past: The case of Pocahontas / Steven Mintz. ISBN 9781405190039. …

Mintz, Steven, 1953-. Huck's raft: a history of American childhood. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004, xi, 445pp., very good price-clipped dust-jacket, very good beige half-cloth with light yellow boards. Like Huck's raft, the experience of American childhood has been both adventurous and terrifying. For more than three centuries, adults have agonized over raising children while children have followed their own paths to development and expression. Now, Steven Mintz gives us the first comprehensive history of American childhood encompassing both the child's and the adult's tumultuous early years of life. Underscoring diversity through time and across regions, Mintz traces the transformation of children from the sinful creatures perceived by Puritans to the productive workers of nineteenth-century farms and factories, from the cosseted cherubs of the Victorian era to the confident consumers of our own. He explores their role in revolutionary upheaval, westward expansion, industrial growth, wartime mobilization, and the modern welfare state. Revealing the harsh realities of children's lives through history--the rigors of physical labor, the fear of chronic ailments, the heartbreak of premature death--he also acknowledges the freedom children once possessed to discover their world as well as themselves. Whether at work or play, at home or school, the transition from childhood to adulthood has required generations of Americans to tackle tremendously difficult challenges. Today, adults impose ever-increasing demands on the young for self-discipline, cognitive development, and academic achievement, even as the influence of the mass media and consumer culture has grown. With a nod to the past, Mintz revisits an alternative to the goal-driven realities of contemporary childhood. An odyssey of psychological self-discovery and growth, this book suggests a vision of childhood that embraces risk and freedom--like the daring adventure on Huck's raft. - CONTENTS: Children of the covenant -- Red, white, and black in colonial America -- Sons and daughters of liberty -- Inventing the middle-class child -- Growing up in bondage -- Childhood battles of the Civil War -- Laboring children -- Save the child -- Children under the magnifying glass -- New to the promised land -- Revolt of modern youth -- Coming of age in the Great Depression -- Mobilizing children for World War II -- In pursuit of the perfect childhood -- Youthquake -- Parental panics and the reshaping of childhood -- The unfinished century of the child. 9780674015081 ISBN 0674015088.…