Daniel Day Lewis as Lincoln
The Conversation Blog at the Chronicle of Higher Ed hosted a roundtable on Spielberg’s recent release Lincoln:
As viewers flock to see Lincoln, and reviewers rave about Daniel Day-Lewis’s performance, historians are raising different issues: How accurate is the film’s portrayal of emancipation? What does it leave out? The Chronicle Review asked several scholars to weigh in.
Posts include:
Kate Masur, “A Filmmaker’s Imagination, and a Historian’s”
Harold Holzer, “Reel Lincoln: The Case for the Spielberg Film”
Barbara Krauthamer, “Slavery’s Grotesque and Relentless Violence”
Nina Silber, “Spielberg: Reconciliation or Reconstruction?”
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