HIS 262 – U. S. History in Film

Selected Bibliography

(Asterisks (*) identify books on reserve or in the reference section of our campus library.)

Anderegg, Michael. Inventing Vietnam: The War in Film and Television (1991).

*Armstrong, Richard B. Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings and Series (2001).

Auster, Albert, and Leonard Quart. How the War Was Remembered: Hollywood and Vietnam (1988).

Baker, M. Joyce. Images of Women in Film: The War Years, 1941-1945 (1980).

Barnouw, Eric. Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film (1983).

Barsam, Ricard. Looking at Movies: An Introduction to Film (2004).

Barta, Tony, ed. Screening the Past: Film and the Representation of History (1998).

Bassinger, Janine. A Woman’s View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960 (1993).

Bergman, Andrew. We’re in the Money: Depression America and Its Films (1971).

Bergman, Paul, and Michael Asimov. Reel Justice: The Courtroom Goes to the Movies ( ).

Bernardi, Daniel. The Birth of Whiteness: Race and the Emergence of U. S. Cinema (1996).

Bodnar, John E. Blue Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film (2003).

Bogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Film (1994).

*Booker, M. Keith. Film and the American Left: A Research Guide (1999).

Brownlow, Kevin. Beyond the Mask of Innocence: Sex, Violence, Prejudice, Crime, Films of Social Conscience in the silent Era (1990).

Burgoyne, Robert. Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U. S. History (1997).

Cameron, Kenneth M. America on Film: Hollywood and American History (1997).

*Carnes, Mark C., ed. Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies (1995).

Carr, Jay, ed. The A List: The National Society of Film Critics’ 100 Essential Films (2002).

Cook, David A. A History of Narrative Film (2004).

Cook, David A. Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979 (2000).

Coplair, Larry, and Stephen Englund. The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the film Community, 1930-1960 (1983).

*Corkin, Stanley. Cowboys as Cold Warriors: The Western and U. S. History (2004).

Couvares, Francis G., ed. Movie Censorship and American Culture (1996).

Cripps, Thomas. Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movies from World War I to the Civil Rights Era (1992).

Cripps, Thomas. Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942 (1993).

Custer, George F. Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History (1992).

Davis, Natalie Zemon. Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision (2000).

Davis, Ronald L. Celluloid Mirrors: Hollywood and American

Dick, Bernard F. The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War I Film (1985).

Dighe, Ranjit S., ed. The Historian’s Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum’s Classic as a Political and Monetary Allegory (2002).

Dittmar, Linda, and Gene Michaud. From Hanoi to Hollywood: The Vietnam War in American Film (1991).

Doherty, Thomas. Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934 (1999).

Doherty, Thomas. Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II, (1993).

Giovacchini, Saviero. Hollywood Modernism: Film and Politics in the Age of New Deal (2001).

Grindon, Leger. Shadows on the Past: Studies in the Historical Fiction Film (1996).

Guerrero, Edward. Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film (1993).

Hartman, Susan. The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s (1982).

Haskell, Molly. From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies (1987).

Higashi, Sumiko. Virgins, Vamps, and Flappers: The American Silent Movie Heroine (1978).

Isenberg, Michael T. War on Film: The American Cinema and World War I (1981).

James, David. Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties (1989).

Kagan, Norman. The Cinema of Oliver Stone (2000).

Koppes, Clayton, and Gregory Black. Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits, and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies (1987).

Landy, Marcia. Cinematic Uses of the Past (1996).

Lev, Peter. American Films of the 70s: Conflicting Visions (2000).

*Linville, Susan E. History Films, Women, and Freud’s Uncanny (2004).

*Lorence, James J. Screening America: United States History Through Film Since 1900 (2006).

Lorence, James J. The Suppression of “Salt of the Earth”: How Hollywood, Big Labor, and Politicians Balcklisted a Movie in Cold War America (1999).

Mackey-Kallis, Susan. Oliver Stone’s America (1996).

Man, Glenn. Radical Visions: American Film Renaissance, 1967-1976 (1994).

Massood, Paula J. Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences in Film (2003).

Mast, Gerald, and Bruce F. Kawin. A Short History of the Movies (2007).

May, Lary. Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way (2000).

May, Lary. Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industry (1980).

*Mintz, Steven, and Randy Roberts, eds. Hollywood’s America: U. S. History Through Its Films (2001).

Mordden, Ethan. Medium Cool: The Movies of the 1960s (1990).

Muse, Eben J. The Land of Nam: The Vietnam War in American Film (1995).

*O’Brien, Tom. The Screening of America: Movies and Values from Rocky to Rain Man (1990).

O’Connor, John E., and Martin A. Jackson. American History/American Film: Interpreting the Hollywood Image (1979).

O’Connor, John E., ed. Image as Artifact: The Historical Analysis of Film and Television (1990).

Powers, Stephen, et al. Hollywood’s America: Social and Political Themes in Motion Pictures (1996).

Puette, William J. Through Jaundiced Eyes: How the Media Viewed Organized Labor (1996).

Reid, Mark A. Redefining Black Film (1991).

Roffman, Peter, and Jim Purdy. The Hollywood Social Problem Film: Madness, Despair and Politics from the Depression to the Fifties (1981).

*Rollins, Peter C. Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past (2003).

*Rollins, Peter C. Hollywood as Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context (1998).

*Rollins, Peter C., and John E. O’Connor, eds. Hollywood’s Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film (1998).

*Roquemore, Joseph. History Goes to the Movies: A Viewer’s Guide to the Best (and Some of the Worst) Historical Films Ever Made (1999).

Rosen, Ruth. Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies and the American Dream (1973).

Rosenbaum, Jonathan. Movies as Politics (1997).

Rosenstone, Robert A. History on Film, Film on History (2006).

Rosenstone, Robert A., ed. Revisioning History: Filmmakers and the Construction of a New Past (1995).

Rosenstone, Robert A. Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History (1995).

Ross, Steven J. Working Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America (1998).

*Sanello, Frank. Reel v. Real: How Hollywood Turns Fact into Fiction (2003).

Schickel, Richard. D. W. Griffith: An American Life (1984).

Schickel, Richard. Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip: Movies, Memory, and World War II (2003).

Schindler, Colin. Hollywood Goes to War: Films and American Society, 1939-1952 (1979).

Schindler, Colin. Hollywood in Crisis: Cinema and American Society, 1929-1939 (1996).

*Shadoian, Jack. Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film (2003).

Short, K. R. M., ed. Feature Films as History (1981).

Short, K. R. M., ed. Film and Radio Propaganda in World War II (1983).

*Shull, Michael Slade. Radicalism in American Silent Films, 1909-1929: A Filmography and History (2000).

Silva, Fred, ed. Focus on the Birth of a Nation (1971).

*Sklar, Robert. Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies (1994).

Sloan, Kay. The Loud Silents: The Origins of the Social Problem Film (1988).

Smith, Paul, ed. The Historian and Film (1976).

Sorlin, Pierre. The Film in History: Restaging the Past (1980).

Stokes, Melvyn, and Richard Malthy, eds. American Movie Audiences: From the Turn of the Century to the Early Sound Era (1999).

*Summerfield, Ellen. Crossing Cultures Through Film (1993)

*Toplin, Robert. History by Hollywood: The Use and Misuse of the American Past (1996).

Toplin, Robert. Hollywood as Mirror: Changing Views of ‘Outsiders’ and ‘Enemies’ in American Movies (1993).

Toplin, Robert, ed. Oliver Stone’s USA: Film, History, and Controversy (2000).

Toplin, Robert. Reel History: In Defense of Hollywood (2002).

*Tracey, Grant. Filmography of American History (2002).

Tredell, Nicholas, ed. Cinemas of the Mind (2002).

Walker, Mark. Vietnam Veteran Films (1991).

Wexman, Virginia Wright. A History of Film (2006).

Windschuttle, Keith. The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering Our Past (1996).

Wooley, John, and Michael H. Price. The Big Book of Biker Flicks: Forty of the Best Motorcycle Movies of All Time ( ).

*Yaquinto, Marilyn. Pump ‘Em Full of Lead: A Look at Gangsters on Film (1998).

*Zaniello, Tom. Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Rifraff: An Organized Guide to Films About Labor (1996).