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Published by New York: Oxford University Press, ., 1996
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA, Dade City, FL, U.S.A.
Octavo, brown & black boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xii, 197 pp. Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Ken Burns's documentary The Civili War made television history, breaking all viewing records for a PBS series. Indeed, forty million people saw it, more than the populations of the Union and the Confederacy combined. Newsweek praised it as a "stunning television documentary." For a generation of Americans, this documentary is the Civil War. Yet many professional historians criticized it sharply for ignoring the roles of minorities, pointing to a lack of women and of blacks throughout, a disregard for the aftermath of the war (particularly its legacy to race relations), a conventional emphasis on military history rather than social history, and uneven coverage of the military campaigns that gave short shrift to the bloody Western front. Ken Burns's The Civil War brings together detractors, supporters, and Ken Burns himself in a volume that will inspire readers to look again at this stunning documentary, at the way television shoes history, and at the Civil War itself. C. Vann Woodward and Robert Brent Toplin describe painstaking efforts to maintain accuracy and develop a sophisticated interpretation of history. But other contributors are sharply critical. In "Noble Women as Well," Catherine Clinton describes the experiences of women during the war, disguised as soldiers, working as nurses in makeshift hospitals, or besieged in caves by enemy armies, saying that Burns ignores their stories completely. Eric Foner and Leon Litwack are even more scathing, saying that the series distorts the legacy of the war by focusing on the preservation of the Union, ignoring the importance of the institution of slavery had to those who fought the war, and neglecting the experiences of blacks both during and after the war: out of 28 people whose post-war careers are mentioned, only two blacks, both men, are included. "Faced with the choice between historical illumination or nostalgia, Burns consistently opts for nostalgia," Foner writes. The filmmakers themselves respond in the last section. Geoffrey C. Ward, the series' writer, pleads for greater cooperation between filmmakers and historians. Ken Burns's essay is a defense of his art that is well-crafted as the series itself. He discusses the unique limitations of television, pointing out, for instance, that television documentaries, unlike written history, require specific, identifiable visual images, limiting the coverage of subjects with little pictorial documentation. And he praises the power of television to move, inform, and educate, pointing to its unique responsibility in an age where Americans receive more and more of their information through television and film. Civil War, Filmmaking, American Culture, Americana, U.S.-iana. bslic.
Published by University Press of Kansas 2000-06-27, 2000
ISBN 10: 0700612572ISBN 13: 9780700612574
Seller: RUSH HOUR BUSINESS, Worcester, MA, U.S.A.
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paperback. Condition: As New. Clean, intact, fast shipping with tracking number.
Published by University Press of Kansas, 2000
ISBN 10: 0700612572ISBN 13: 9780700612574
Seller: RUSH HOUR BUSINESS, Worcester, MA, U.S.A.
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Pages are clean with no markings.stains or sticker, fast shiiping with tracking number.
Published by Oxford University Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 0195115813ISBN 13: 9780195115819
Seller: West Coast Bookseller, Moorpark, CA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: As New.
Published by Greenwood, 1993
ISBN 10: 0313288844ISBN 13: 9780313288845
Seller: Karen Wickliff - Books, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. 168pp. Gray cloth hardback, VG, index, bibliography, shows how themes addressed in Hollywood films often reflect the interests, hopes, fears, and prejudices of the American people,
Published by Greenwood Publishers, 1974
ISBN 10: 0837173744ISBN 13: 9780837173740
Seller: M.S. Books, Salisbury, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. A collection of papers that examine aspects of the history of slavery and race relations throughout Latin America. 450 pages. Second printing. Has a bit of foxing on the page edges. Minimal sign of previous.
Published by University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 2000
ISBN 10: 0700610359ISBN 13: 9780700610358
Seller: Marvin Minkler Modern First Editions, St. Johnsbury, VT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. 335 pages, with photographs. A sterling volume of thoughtful essays about, and by America's most controversial filmmaker. Contributors include: Stephen E. Ambrose, David Halberstam, George McGovern, Michael L. Kurtz, and many more. As new, still sealed in shirnkwrap. Unread. From my smoke-free collection. Ships in well-padded box.
Published by University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 2000
ISBN 10: 0700610359ISBN 13: 9780700610358
Seller: Kenneth A. Himber, Lebanon, NJ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Almost Like New. 1st Edition. (First Edition, First Printing) Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.
Published by (Lawrence, Kansas): University Press of Kansas,
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.
First Edition
(2000). First edition: Review copy, with materials laid in. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Illustrated with photographs printed on coated stock. Historical overview of Stone's work, followed by a film-by-film critical response to the maverick filmmaker's ouevre from a variety of film commentators, and, as a coda, Stone's response to the responses. Notes, bibliography, index.
Published by Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, (2000), 2000
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Signed
SIGNED (bookplate)- 2nd printing, a trade paperback. A book which combines the views of some of Stone's most thoughtful critics and supporters and allows Stone to respond to their views. Includes contribtions from writers like David Halberstam, Stephen Ambrose, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Walter Lafeber, and Robert Rosenstone, who critique Stone's films to show how they may distort, amplify, or transcend the historical realities they appear to depict. "These essays - on Salvador, Platoon, Wall Street, Born on the Fourth of July, The Doors, JFK, Heaven and Earth, Natural Born Killers, and Nixon - enlarge our understanding of Stone's films, while also giving us a fuller appreciation of the filmmaker as artist and intellectual. They reveal how Stone's experience in Vietnam colors his views of American government and corporate culture and suggest new ways of looking at the complex tensions between art and history that shape Stone's films."Illustrated with photographs. SIGNED by Oliver Stone on a bookplate on the half title page. Includes notes, selected bibliography, list of contributors, index. 335 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Published by Greenwood, 1976
ISBN 10: 0837189292ISBN 13: 9780837189291
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good copy in softcover. Spine faded, crease on front fore-edge corner.
Published by Greenwood Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0313288844ISBN 13: 9780313288845
Seller: Bananafish Books, New Holland, PA, U.S.A.
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Very good copy with minor shelfwear to grey cloth boards.
Published by Greenwood Press, Westport, CT and London, 1993
ISBN 10: 0313288844ISBN 13: 9780313288845
Seller: Footnote Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Gray cloth covered boards with white titles, intro, 8 chapters, selected bibliography, index, 168 pages Size: 9.5 x 6.25 .75: inches. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Film ; ISBN: 0313288844. ISBN/EAN: 9780313288845. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 5691.
Published by Univ Pr of Kansas, 2000
ISBN 10: 0700610359ISBN 13: 9780700610358
Seller: London Bridge Books, London, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Good.