The challenge of making the great American historical film has attracted some of our finest talents: D. W. Griffith, John Ford, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Copp

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This definitive interdisciplinary collection by leading scholars probes the theoretical and historical contexts of films made about the American past, from sile

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