TY - BOOK AU - McCrisken Trevor AU - McCrisken,Trevor B. AU - Pepper,Andrew TI - American history and contemporary Hollywood film SN - 0813536200 (alk. paper) AV - PN 1995.9 M478a 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - New Brunswick, N.J. PB - Rutgers University Press KW - Historical films KW - United States KW - History and criticism KW - Motion pictures and history N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Lessons from Hollywood's American Revolution : Revolution; The patriot 2. Rattling the chains of history : Steven Spielberg's Amistad and 'telling everyone's story' : Roots; Amistad 3. Hollywood's Civil War dilemma : to imagine or unravel the nation? : Gettysburg; Glory; Ride with the devil; Cold mountain 4. Saving the good war : Hollywood and World War II in the post-Cold War world : Saving Private Ryan; The thin red line; U-571; Pearl Harbor 5. Oliver Stone and the decade of trauma : Platoon; Born on the Fourth of July; Heaven the earth; JFK; Nixon 6. From civil rights to black nationalism : Hollywood v. black America? : Panther; Mississippi burning; The Hurricane; Malcolm X; Ali 7. Hollywood's post-Cold War history : the 'righteousness' of American interventionism : Three kings; Black Hawk down ER -