| The films considered: The Birth of a Nation (1915), The Plow that
Broke the
Plains (1936), The River (1937), March of Time (1935-1953), City Lights
(1931),
Modern Times (1936), The Great Dictator (1940), The Grapes of Wrath
(1940),
Native Land (1942), Wilson (1944), The Negro Soldier (1944), The Snake Pit
(1948), On the Waterfront (1954), Dr. Strangelove (1964), Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf? (1966), and Apocalypse Now (1979).
Peter C. Rollins, Regents Professor of English at Oklahoma State
University,
is editor of the journal Film & History and of numerous
books, including Hollywood's
West, Hollywood's White
House, Hollywood's
Indian and Television
Histories.
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