Bio/Pics - 9780813517551

Bio/Pics\nPlease note: \nthis item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days).\n\nHow Hollywood Constructed Public History\nAuthor(s): George Custen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9780813517551, 978-0813517551\nSynopsis\n\""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 Century-Fox, Warner Bros., MGM, and RKO studios, as well as censorship files from the Production Code Administration, George Custen argues that, through these films, Hollywood manufactu.