The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have
Portrayed the American Past. Ed. Peter C. Rollins. Columbia University Press, 2003.
(ISBN: 0-231-11222-X)  (110 pictures)

This collection of essays took 7.5 years to produce and will be a landmark
production; the most important aspect is that it is NOT a history of film, but
an overview of how films have treated American history.  Film & History, the
scholarly journal, has been conducting such explorations for three decades and
this collection consolidates the progress in this line of inquiry.

The book is dedicated to John E. O'Connor and Martin A. Jackson, two pioneers
in the field and the founders of Film & History back in 1970.

A table of contents can be found under "Recent News" on the Film & History
web site:


http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~filmhis/recent_news/toc_columbia_companion.htm

A florid description of the book and its goals can be found on the IAMHIST
web site:

            http://www.iamhist.org/books/index.html

Scholars take note!!

Peter Rollins
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www.filmandhistory.org

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