Toplin, Robert Brent 1940- creator text bibliography ilu Urbana University of Illinois Press 2010 2nd edition monographic eng

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269 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. "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." 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". Robert Brent Toplin. Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-259) and index. n-us--- Historical films United States History and criticism Motion pictures and history Cine histórico Estados Unidos Historia y critica Cine e historia PN 1995.9 T675h 2010 791.43/658 9780252076893 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0252076893 (pbk. : alk. paper) 2009014549 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1010/2009014549-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1010/2009014549-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1010/2009014549-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1010/2009014549-d.html DLC 090409 20230411090758.0 15694556