TY - BOOK AU - Toplin,Robert Brent TI - History by Hollywood: the use and abuse of the American past SN - 0252020731 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - PN1995.9.H5 T66 1996 U1 - 791.43/658 20 PY - 1996/// CY - Urbana PB - University of Illinois Press KW - Historical films KW - United States KW - History and criticism KW - Motion pictures and history N1 - 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" ER -