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Zusatztext This book delivers a genuinely original and insightful rethinking of how a multilayered mediascape shaped the ways in which Americans thought about and imagined the nations defining regions, identities, and landscapes. Courtneys study of mid-twentieth-century culture takes full advantage of the new tools of twenty-first century historiography. Split Screen Nation reaches broadly to synthesize an impressive variety of cinematic and televisual source material. It deftly demonstrates how popular Hollywood films must be seen as works ever in dialogue with their far more numerous contemporaries amateur films, home movies, government films, newsreels, local television, sponsored films, and other productions only now being intellectually mapped. Informationen zum Autor Susan Courtney is an associate professor of Film and Media Studies and English at the University of South Carolina. There she also co-founded the Orphan Film Symposium and has directed the program in Film and Media Studies. She is the author of Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation: Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race, 1903-1967 (2005). Klappentext Analyzing an eclectic history of film and related media, Split Screen Nation argues that popular visions of the American West and the American South must be thought in relation to one another if we are to fully understand the marks both have left on popular ways of imagining the U.S. Zusammenfassung Analyzing an eclectic history of film and related media, Split Screen Nation argues that popular visions of the American West and the American South must be thought in relation to one another if we are to fully understand the marks both have left on popular ways of imagining the U.S.
