Steven Biel is the author of American Gothic: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting (W.W. Norton, 2005), Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster (Norton, 1996; updated edition 2012), and Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945 (New York University Press, 1992), and the editor of American Disasters (NYU Press, 2001) and Titanica: The Disaster of the Century in Poetry, Song, and Prose (Norton, 1998). His articles and reviews have appeared in the Boston Globe, American Prospect, Common-Place, USA Weekend, TV Guide, Hollywood Reporter, Journal of American History, Wilson Quarterly, and other publications. He is the Executive Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center and Senior Lecturer on History and Literature at Harvard University. 
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The response to The Deer Hunter amounted to a serious public debate over the Vietnam War that extended beyond film critics to engage a wide range of viewers. It wasn’t[…]
