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Author:

Toplin, Robert Brent, 1940-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c1996

Description:

xii, 267 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Historical films--United States--History and criticism.
Motion pictures and history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [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".

ISBN:

9780252065361 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252065360 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)33206625

LCCN:

95041734

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

VKPE334 -- Oelwein Public Library (Oelwein)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center) — 791.43/658

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)