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Author Toplin, Robert Brent, 1940-

Title History by Hollywood : the use and abuse of the American past / Robert Brent Toplin
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1996]
©1996

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Description xii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 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"
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-257) and index
Subject Historical films -- United States -- History and criticism.
Motion pictures and history.
LC no. 95041734
ISBN 0252020731 cloth alkaline paper
0252065360 paperback alkaline paper