Author Archive for: ‘Nicholas Witham’
Reconstructing American Historical Cinema: From Cimarron to Citizen Kane
J. E. Smyth, Reconstructing American Historical Cinema: From Cimarron to Citizen Kane. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. ISBN: 0 81312406 9 US$50.00 (hb) 447pp (Review copy supplied by the University Press of Kentucky) J. E. Smyth’s Reconstructing American Historical Cinema is intended, in the author’s own words, “to question the canons of film studies and American history” (24). This is a bold claim. In …
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