Colonial History & Anglo-American tension: "Allegheny Uprising & Drums along the Mohawk"

Authors

  • K. R. M. Short University of Houston

Abstract

Frank Nugent's The New York Times review of Drums Along the Mohawk (Twentieth CenturyFox) did not provide an answer to his implied question. Why had Hollywood largely avoided the period between 1776 and 1783? Excepting The Last of the Mohicans (1936) starring Randolph Scott and a matinee serial of the same name, the pre-1776 colonial period was also largely missing from American screens.

Author Biography

K. R. M. Short, University of Houston

K. R. M. SHORT is Professor of Communication and Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Houston. Formerly Director of the School of Communication, he is now Head of Radio & Television Program. The founding editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, he is co-editor of the Cambridge Studies in the History of Mass Communication. His most recent book is Catalogue of Forbidden German Feature and Short Film Productions, Studies in War and Film -4, Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive/Flicks Books (London, 1996).

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (1996)

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