Crime, history, and Hollywood
Subtitle: learning criminal justice history through major motion pictures
By: Willard M. Oliver and Nancy E. Marion
Contributors: Marion, Nancy E.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781594609756
Subjects: Crime; Administration of Criminal justice; Crime in popular culture; Motion pictures and history; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Amistad & the trial of the Amistads (1839); title: September dawn & the Mountain Meadows Massacre (1857); title: Tombstone & the shootout at the O.K. Corral (1881); title: Eight men out & the fixing of the 1919 World Series (1919); title: St. Valentine's Day massacre & the American gangster Al Capone (1929); title: Public enemies & the hunt for John Dillinger (1934); title: In cold blood & the Clutter Family murders (1959); title: Escape from Alcatraz & the Alcatraz prison (1962); title: Mississippi burning & the murder of three civil rights workers (1964); title: All the president's men & the Watergate scandal.