History by Hollywood /
"This newly updated edition of History by Hollywood explores the question of what happens to history when Hollywood filmmakers get their hands on it. With a fresh look at recent films and television productions such as Titanic, Pearl Harbor, The Patriot, and John Adams, Robert Brent Toplin exam...
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2009]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the second edition
- Part 1: 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"
- Part 2: 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"
- Part 3: Opening debate: revealing current controversy in portrayals of the past. Bonnie and Clyde : "Violence of the most grisly sort" ; Patton : "Deliberately planned as a Rorschach test"
- Part 4: 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.