American Obscurantism —— History and the Visual in U.S. Literature and Film

----- 美国的蒙昧主义：美国文学与电影中的历史与视角

ISBN: 9780199797318 出版年：2018 页码：233 Lurie, Peter Oxford University Press

American Obscurantism argues for a salutary indirection in US culture. Critiquing the impulse to see history in seminal works like Griffith's Birth of a Nation and the residual positivism of New Historicist methodology, the book challenges this shared visual epistemology . It traces meaningful exceptions to this pattern across canonical figures from US literature and film.