This is the course blog for HIST 329 for Fall 2008. Do you know which films the above images come from?
U.S. History in Film
Prof. McClurken’s HIST 329 — Fall 20084 Comments »
Reverend wrote @ August 2nd, 2008 at 9:43 am
I love what you have done with this theme. It may be the best design I have seen yet!
agrussell wrote @ August 26th, 2008 at 10:18 am
I believe the 4th pic is from “Glory” but I would have to guess about the others (2nd pic is.. “The Color Purple”?)
kokoro wrote @ August 26th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
1st- ‘Best Years of Our Lives’
2nd- ‘The Color Purple’
3rd- No idea… ‘My Darling Clementine’, maybe?
4th- ‘Glory’
areed wrote @ November 11th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
“Matewan” and Reagan
areed on 11 Nov 2008 06:14 pm [edit this]
Again… really liked the movie and enjoyed the side movie debate.
But I thought I would share this. Link.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story…
It is about Reagan and the air-traffic controllers’ strike in 1981. Fairly new in office, Reagan was seen as an American cowboy, because of his Hollywood persona. This intimidation worked not only with foreign diplomats who sometimes didn’t separate the image of Reagan in his movies and in real life, but it also proved to be true domestically when a showdown took place with the strikers. All the air-traffic strikers’ jobs were terminated. Reagan the villain or this story? Unions certainly thought so.
I bring up the Cowboy Showdown Allegory because someone had pointed out that Matewan had sort of the Western Movie archetype. In terms of the time, Matewan certainly would be suggesting a comparison between Reagan and the ruthless Detectives against the poor, hard-laboring workers.–Jackie Reed
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