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History by Hollywood : The Use and Abuse of the American Past
by Toplin, Robert BrentEdition:
2nd
ISBN13:
9780252076893
ISBN10:
0252076893
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Paperback
Pub. Date:
2/1/2010
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Univ of Illinois Pr
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Summary
This newly updated edition ofHistory by Hollywoodexplores 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 asTitanic, Pearl Harbor, The Patriot,andJohn Adams,Robert Brent Toplin examines how filmmakers have interpreted American history through their movies. Toplin discusses how writers, producers, and directors become involved in making historical films, what influences their interpretations of the past, and the responses they make to the controversies their works excite. With a realistic appreciation of the challenges filmmakers face, he effectively measures the strengths and weaknesses of Hollywood's presentation of history in the filmsMississippi Burning, JFK, Sergeant York, Missing, Bonnie and Clyde, Patton, All the President's Men,andNorma Rae.
Author Biography
Robert Brent Toplin, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, is the author of many books and articles on film and history and on United States and Latin American history. He has been principal creator of a number of PBS and Disney Channel films and is the film and media editor for Perspectives in History.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Introduction to the Second Edition | p. 1 |
| Exercising Artistic License: Communicating through a Mix of Fact and Fiction | |
| Mississippi Burning "A Standard to Which We Couldn't Live Up" | p. 25 |
| JFK "Fact, Fiction, and Supposition" | p. 45 |
| Drawing Lessons: Making the Past Relevant to the Present | |
| Sergeant York "If That Is Propaganda, We Plead Guilty" | p. 81 |
| Missing "An Assault on the Integrity of the U.S. Government, the Foreign Service and the Military" | p. 103 |
| Opening Debate: Revealing Current Controversy in Portrayals of the Past | |
| Bonnie and Clyde "Violence of a Most Grisly Sort" | p. 127 |
| Patton "Deliberately Planned as a Rorschach Test" | p. 155 |
| Accenting Heroism: Celebrating the "Great Man" in the Documentary Style | |
| All the President's Men "The Story That People Know and Remember" | p. 179 |
| Norma Rae "A Female Rocky" | p. 203 |
| Epilogue | p. 225 |
| Notes | p. 229 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 251 |
| Index | p. 261 |
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