The Social and Cultural Construction of Abraham Lincoln in U.S. Movies and on U.S. TV

Abraham Lincoln has constantly moved among and stirred Americans in the common, shifting ground of their popular, visual, and digital imagination. Nowadays, Lincoln is larger than the sum of his parts. This is due partly to his own prismatic personality, partly to his political genius, partly to the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: John Dean
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Göttingen University Press 2009-09-01
Series:American Studies Journal
Subjects:
US
Online Access:http://www.asjournal.org/archive/53/172.html