History by Hollywood The Use and Abuse of the American Past

Name: History by Hollywood The Use and Abuse of the American Past
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ISBN: 9780252065361

ISBN-10: 0252065360

ISBN-13: 9780252065361

Edition: 1996

Authors: Robert Toplin

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Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 7/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Exercising Artistic License: Communicating through a Mix of Fact and Fiction



Mississippi Burning: "A Standard to Which We Couldn't Live Up"



JFK: "Fact, Fiction, and Supposition"



Drawing Lessons: Making the Past Relevant to the Present



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"



Reflecting the Present: Revealing Current Controversy in Portrayals of the Past



Bonnie and Clyde: "Violence of a Most Grisly Sort"



Patton: "Deliberately Planned as a Rorschach Test"



Accenting Heroism: Celebrating the "Great Man" in the Documentary Style



All the President's Men: "The Story That People Know and Remember"



Norma Rae: "A Female Rocky"


Epilogue


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index