• DOI:10.1080/14664658.2011.594651
Corpus ID: 146375501

Abraham Lincoln and the Movies

@article{Stokes2011AbrahamLA,
  title={Abraham Lincoln and the Movies},
  author={M. Stokes},
  journal={American Nineteenth Century History},
  year={2011},
  volume={12},
  pages={203 - 231}
}

M. Stokes

Published 2011

Sociology

American Nineteenth Century History

Comparatively little work has been done on how Abraham Lincoln has been represented in American cinema. Yet movies have been a major – and during the first half of the twentieth century probably the major – influence on how his memory has been constructed in American popular culture. This article analyzes changing representations of Lincoln on screen, showing that differing cinematic constructions of the sixteenth president were shaped by a range of factors, including popular biographies and… CONTINUE READING

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