History by Hollywood : the use and abuse of the American past /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Toplin, Robert Brent, 1940-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1996]
Subjects:	Historical films > United States > History and criticism. Motion pictures and history.

Table of 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".