Toplin, Robert Brent,   1940- <br/><br/>
History by Hollywood / 
Robert Brent Toplin. 
 - 2nd edition 
 - Urbana :  University of Illinois Press,  2010. 
 - 269 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-259) and index. 
<br/><br/>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 assualt on the integrity of the U.S. government, the Foreign Service, and the military" -- Bonnie and Clyde : "violence of the 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". 
<br/><br/> "This smart, instructive book benefits from very real strengths--thorough research augmented by new interviews with filmmakers, precise writing accompanied by an appreciation for complexity--but perhaps most refreshing is its sense of fairness."--Publishers Weekly "A 'must read' for those who study, research, and write about the history of the motion picture."--Journal of Popular Film and Television "A timely attempt to open new dialogues about the ways historians present their work and reach wider audiences." 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780252076893 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0252076893 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009014549 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Historical films--History and criticism.--United States<br/>Motion pictures and history.<br/>Cine histórico --Historia y critica--Estados Unidos<br/>Cine e historia
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 1995.9   / T675h 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.43/658