History by Hollywood
Subtitle: the use and abuse of the American past
By: Robert Brent Toplin.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Historical films -- United States -- History and criticism.; Motion pictures and history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-257) and index.
Table of contents: title: Mississippi Burning : "a standard to which we couldn't live up"; title: JFK : "fact, fiction, and supposition"; title: Sergeant York : "if that is propaganda, we plead guilty"; title: Missing : "an assault on the integrity of the U.S. government, the Foreign Service and the military"; title: Bonnie and Clyde : "violence of a most grisly sort"; title: Patton : "deliberately planned as a Rorschach Test"; title: All the President's men : "the story that people know and remember"; title: Norma Rae : "a female rocky".