PHL 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Gettysburg Address, Soda Shop, Norman Rockwell
2 Apr 2016
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His work has a sentimental quality to them. Scene in where a boy has run away from home at a soda shop engaging in a discussion warm feeling. Depiction of america in the 1950s and 60s young boy can run away from home yet not be in danger safe, comfortable streets of america. Scrooge who works his employees to the bone. Scrooge visited by ghosts on christmas eve showing him all of the wronging"s he has done. Gives scrooge a conversion and becomes a warm and generous person full of. Warm, rosy glow content outlook on the world good people. First scene lincoln is trying to interact with the soldiers. Asking what they are going to do after the civil war. They don"t answer instead they recite back to lincoln the gettysburg address. Lincoln is a classic example of how hollywood can take a complex and challenging historical moment and whitewash it with hagiography and sentimentality stephen.
