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A director whose career as a filmmaker started in the same year that The Birth of a Nation (1915) was released and ended by the time Francis Ford Coppola was presenting his first feature, I argue that King's oeuvre represents the epitome and apex of the studio filmmaker. Working in a wide variety of genres, his depictions of America's heartland and small towns, its iconographies and festivities, are rivaled only by D.W. Griffith's pastorals and John Ford's community's mediations. To sustain my arguments, I highlight the imageries of the idealized American small-town and compare the concept of Americana with two others: nostalgia, and the German Heimat. Present since the rise of motion pictures, films in the Americana genre raise and reflect historical questions and shifts in both the United States' hegemonic ideologies and the Hollywood studio system itself, and no other filmmaker exceeded in this genre quite as much as King."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["King of America: An Exploration of Americana Through the Movies of Henry King"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Jackson, Bruce","English"],"dc:creator":["Francisco Cursini, Bruno"],"dc:date":["2022-06-21T15:47:12Z","2020"],"dc:description":["M.A.","This thesis engages the work of American filmmaker Henry King (1886-1982) with the understudied concept of Americana. 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