Can historians learn to stop worrying and love the film industry? Maybe not. But there is hope for rapprochement in Robert Brent Toplin’s Reel History: In Defense of Hollywood (University Press of ...
It’s a self-protective aspect of human nature to put aside painful memories, and that’s what most of us have done about the murderous riots in the summer of 2020 that were sparked by George Floyd’s ...
It’s becoming more and more common when you watch a motion picture: it starts, and the words “based on a true story” or “based on real events” appear on the screen. In other words, is everything we ...