American History/American Film

Abstract

First things first: This is a collection of fifteen essays about American films that depicted the historical past and, in doing so, reflected the times in which they were made. The films – King Vidor’s The Big Parade, John Ford’s Drums Along the Mohawk, Howard Hawks’ Red River, Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, and Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde among them -- are nearly all acknowledged classics. The editors founded the academic study of film and history in the United States in 1970, when they established the Historians’ Film Committee of the American Historical Association. The contributors include the authors of some of the pivotal works in the field: Peter C. Rollins, Robert Sklar, Garth Jowett, and Lawrence Suid. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., one of the first leading historians to champion the study of film and history, contributed the foreword. American History/American Film is, in short, a major work and a landmark

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