Bio/Pics How Hollywood Constructed Public History |
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| Author:
| Custen, George |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8135-1755-1 |
| Publication Date: | May 1992 |
| Publisher: | Rutgers University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $40.95 |
Book Description:
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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 manufactured a nearly monochromatic view of history that was systematically distorted in regard to race, gender, nationality, and...
More Description 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 manufactured a nearly monochromatic view of history that was systematically distorted in regard to race, gender, nationality, and profession.