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Abraham Lincoln and Women in Film: One Hundred Years of Hollywood Mythmaking

Abraham Lincoln and Women in Film: One Hundred Years of Hollywood Mythmaking

Wetta, Frank J.
Parrish, T. Michael
Novelli, Martin A.

Hardcover

Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War

Presidents & Heads of StateCivil War Period (1850-1877)Film Studies

ISBN10: 0807169722
ISBN13: 9780807169728
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Feb 28 2024
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Frank J. Wetta and Martin A. Novelli's Abraham Lincoln and Women in Film investigates how depictions of women in Hollywood motion pictures helped forge the myth of Lincoln. Exploring female characters' backstories, the political and cultural climate in which the films appeared, and the contest between the moviemakers' imaginations and the varieties of historical truth, Wetta and Novelli place the women in Lincoln's life at the center of the study, including his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln; his stepmother, Sarah Bush Lincoln; his lost loves, Ann Rutledge and Mary Owens; and his wife and widow, Mary Todd Lincoln. Later, while inspecting Lincoln's legacy, they focus on the 1930s child actor Shirley Temple and the 1950s movie star Marilyn Monroe, who had a well-publicized fascination with the sixteenth president.

Wetta and Novelli's work is the first to deal extensively with the women in Lincoln's life, both those who interacted with him personally and those appearing on screen. It is also among the first works to examine how scholarly and popular biography influenced depictions of Lincoln, especially in film.

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