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Peter C. Rollins
Regents Professor, Emeritus
PhD, Harvard University
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- American Studies
- Popular Culture
- Film and History
Recent Upper Division and Graduate Courses Taught
- Film and History
- Documentary Film
- Film and Literature
- The American West in Film
- The Native American in Film
- Frank Capra
- Film in relation to World War I
- World War II
- The Korean Conflict
- Vietnam
- The Presidency in Film and Television.
Selected Publications
Hollywood's West(s): The American Frontier in Film, Television, and History (2005).
The Columbia UP Companion to American History on Film (2004).
The West Wing: The American Presidency as Television Drama (2003).
Hollywood's White House: The American Presidency in Film and History (2003). Awarded the Ray and Pat Browne Award.
Hollywood's Indian: The Native American in Film (2nd ed. 2003).
Television Histories: Shaping Memory in the Media Age (2001). Awarded Best Book in American Culture Studies.
Hollywood as Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context (2nd ed. 1998).
Hollywood's World War I: Motion Picture Images (1998).
"Will Rogers: Symbolic Man and Film Image" 20th Century Literary Criticism 71.
"HBO Compounds a Lie in its Adaptation of Neil Sheehan's Bright Shining Lie," The Washington Times May 31, 1998: C-3. In longer form as an "Accuracy in Media Report," June, 1998.
"Selective Bibliography for Researching Popular Film." In The Eye of the Beholder: Critical Perspectives in Popular Film and Television, eds. Gary Edgerton and Michael T. Marsden (Popular Press, 1997), 237-51.
" Hollywood Takes on the President." The World and I: A Chronicle of Our Changing Era (January, 1997): 56-67.
Recent Radio Appearances
"American History on Film" on NPR's Talk of the Nation for May 24, 2004: http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1908147.
"The Rhetoric of Michael Moore" on New York City's WNYC-FM, The Brian Lehrer Show, July 2, 2004: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/07022004.
Selected Motion Pictures
Television's Vietnam: The Impact of Media (1985).
Television's Vietnam: The Real Story (1984).
Will Rogers' 1920s: A Cowboy's Guide to the Times (1976).
Honors & Offices
- Editor-in-Chief, Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies (1994-present). (More Information about the journal).
- Associate Editor and Book Review Editor, Journal of Popular Culture; Journal of American Culture (until Summer, 2003).
Current Research & Projects
The misperception of our history, culture, and values as a result of
media constructions, conventions, and fictions. We live in a media environment
and our fellow citizens need visual literacy skills so that they can
act intelligently in our democracy.
I teach interdisciplinary seminars on film and television, on important
decades, and on themes such as the Presidency, World War II, the Korean
Conflict, and the Vietnam war. Also, I have supervised dissertations
on Flannery O'Connor, Steinbeck, Jack London, and Hemingway on the literary
side. Additionally, I have some interest in the ethnic experience--dissertations
on the Boston Irish; Mexican-American literature; and African-American
literature. (One of my former students is a popular African-American
author.) Film research by students has focused on the adaptations of
literature to film by major authors plus special works on the 1970s in
film, on Vietnam in film, and on single creative personalities such as
Frank Capra. My strengths as an advisor are due to my fascination with
the details of history and culture--a focus which enriches and enlightens
both literary and cinematic texts. This focus was cultivated during my
undergraduate years in Harvard's History and Literature (Honors) Program
and further developed in the History of American Civilization PhD program.
I have done nothing else ever since--in writing and on film--and plan
to trudge along this interdisciplinary path until I drop. God bless Captain
Vere and Perry Miller!
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