Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History

by George F. Custen

Book Overview

"Helps us to understand how Hollywood films shaped public consciousness about the past by constructing a very specific, ideologically charged version of that past. . . . A fresh and important contribution to film history and cultural studies."--Daniel Czitrom, Mount Holyoke College

Bio/Pics is the first comprehensive study of a once important film genre, the biographical film. Using previously unavailable archival materials from Twentieth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813517559
• ISBN13: 9780813517551
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"