Young Mr. Lincoln: Between myth and history in 1939

Rethinking History

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 193-214

  Smyth, J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abraham Lincoln; American film historiography; Classical Hollywood cinema; Darryl F. Zanuck; John Ford; Lamar Trotti; Lincoln biography, 1925 1940

Indexed keywords

EID: 61249347862     PISSN: 13642529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13642520308358     Document Type: Review

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