America on Screen Links

America on Screen Links

General Use Sites and Textbooks
‘To Will the Past Alive’ - US History Scene
American History [ushistory.org]
The American Yawp
Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture
The Historian and Film: Challenges Ahead
Film Noir and American History
The Importance of Historical Context in Analysis and Interpretation
Pleasantville: A Brief Review & Racial Undertones
Film as Social and Cultural History
The Film as History

 The Great Depression


Race in Film
Race/Ethnicity in 600 Films
Race in Early American Film
The Movies, Race, and Ethnicity
Boyhood, Selma, and American Sniper
The Film Industry's Race Problem
Race & Ethnicity
From Blackface to Blaxplotation
5 Common Native American Stereotypes in Film and Television
Race and Ethnicity-Film Reference
Race in America: The Black Experience
Portrayal of Minorities in the Film, Media, and Entertainment Industries

The Affluent Society/The 1950s
People Change: Gary Ross's Pleasantville 
American History and Film-Pleasantville
Cliffnotes-The Affluent Society
A Review of Galbraith's The Affluent Society
The Fifties
Cinema History: The 1950s
American Film from the 1950s
Movies and Rural America
The Literature and Culture of the 1950s
Fiftiesweb

The Cold War
Red Scare Filmography