Real to Reel: Further Reading
The following is a list of sources used or consulted in the making of the BackStory episode, “Real to Reel: History at the Movies” broadcast in February 2013. You can listen to the entire episode here.
The Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Web Extra
Mark Peterson walks us through a third odd Revolutionary War flick. This one came out in 1940…and reflects WWII politics in some surprising ways.
Mentioned in the Show:
The Birth of a Nation (1915) by D.W. Griffith
Within Our Gates (1920) by Oscar Micheaux
The “Dickson Experimental Sound Film” (ca. 1894) by William Dickson
Trailer for Mission to Moscow (1943) by Michael Curtiz
One World, Big Screen: Hollywood, the Allies, and World War II by M. Todd Bennett
Trailer for Django Unchained (2012) by Quentin Tarantino
Trailer for Lincoln (2012) by Steven Spielberg
Trailer for Zero Dark Thirty (2012) by Kathryn Bigelow
Trailer for Revolution (1985) by Hugh Hudson
Trailer for The Patriot (2000) by Roland Emmerich
Further Reading:
“The Founding Fathers and their Dysfunctional Families,” by Mark Peterson
“A Southern Sublimation: Lynching Film and the Reconstruction of American Memory,” by Robert Jackson
Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930, ed. W. Fitzhugh Brundage
“The Historian Encounters Film: A Historiography,” by Robert Brent Toplin and Jason Eudy
“Toward a More Badass History,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Atlantic’s roundtable discussion on history and Lincoln
“Why Django Can’t Revolt,” by Remeike Forbes
“Reconfiguring the History of Early Cinema through the Phonograph, 1877-1908” by Patrick Feaster and Jacob Smith
“The Birth of a Nation and Black Protest,” from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
