History by Hollywood : the use and abuse of the American past /
Toplin, Robert Brent, 1940-
History by Hollywood : the use and abuse of the American past / Robert Brent Toplin. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1996. - xii, 267 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-257) and index.
Mississippi Burning : "a standard to which we couldn't live up" -- JFK : "fact, fiction, and supposition" -- Sergeant York : "if that is propaganda, we plead guilty" -- Missing : "an assault on the integrity of the U.S. government, the Foreign Service and the military" -- Bonnie and Clyde : "violence of a most grisly sort" -- Patton : "deliberately planned as a Rorschach Test" -- All the President's men : "the story that people know and remember" -- Norma Rae : "a female rocky".
0252020731 (cloth : alk. paper) 0252065360 (pbk. : alk. paper)
95041734
Historical films--History and criticism.--United States
Motion pictures and history.
PN1995.9.H5 / T66 1996
791.43/658
History by Hollywood : the use and abuse of the American past / Robert Brent Toplin. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1996. - xii, 267 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-257) and index.
Mississippi Burning : "a standard to which we couldn't live up" -- JFK : "fact, fiction, and supposition" -- Sergeant York : "if that is propaganda, we plead guilty" -- Missing : "an assault on the integrity of the U.S. government, the Foreign Service and the military" -- Bonnie and Clyde : "violence of a most grisly sort" -- Patton : "deliberately planned as a Rorschach Test" -- All the President's men : "the story that people know and remember" -- Norma Rae : "a female rocky".
0252020731 (cloth : alk. paper) 0252065360 (pbk. : alk. paper)
95041734
Historical films--History and criticism.--United States
Motion pictures and history.
PN1995.9.H5 / T66 1996
791.43/658