Download or read book Lincoln Before Lincoln written by Brian J. Snee and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a wealth of biographical material, relatively few full-length motion pictures have taken Abraham Lincoln and his life as a primary subject. In this detailed study, Brian J. Snee provides a sweeping overview of the cinematic representations of the sixteenth president from the silent era up to Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012).