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Author Toplin, Robert Brent, 1940-

Title History by Hollywood : the use and abuse of the American past / Robert Brent Toplin.

Imprint Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1996.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  791.43658 T627h 1996    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-257) and index.
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."
Subject Historical films -- United States -- History and criticism.
Motion pictures and history.
Historical films. (OCoLC)fst00958120
Motion pictures and history. (OCoLC)fst01027408
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
ISBN 0252020731 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780252020735 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0252065360 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780252065361 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

 
    
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