Hot Topics February 20, 2012 HNN Hot Topics: Hollywood & the Movies Commentary: HistoriansThomas Doherty: The Last Bow for 35mm Film (2-20-12)Robert Brent Toplin: If History is Any Judge, the History Movie is a Big Winner at Oscar Time (2-20-12)Bruce Chadwick: History Films Are Back at the Oscars (2-20-12)Tom Engelhardt: How the Movies Saved My Life (11-17-11)Wayne Federman: What Reagan Did for Hollywood (11-14-11)James Shapiro: Hollywood Dishonors the Bard (10-16-11)Albert Auster and Leonard Quart: Hollywood in Iraq (4-21-11)Kiernan Bagge: Hollywood and Its Relationship with History (02-13-11)Thomas Doherty: Hollywood’s Take on Islam (11-2-10)Ron Radosh: Oliver Stone’s Latest Travesty (10-19-10)James Livingston: Rummaging in The Hurt Locker for a Moral Equivalent of War (4-19-10)Michael C. Scott: Hollywood’s Obsession with the Ancient Epics (3-22-10)The Saga of the Warner Brothers, Hollywood's Studio Family (3-14-10)Robert Brent Toplin: Punish Torture? Hollywood's Answer (4-27-09)Robert Brent Toplin: Ronald Reagan and the Day the Earth Stood Still (12-29-08)Paul Boyer: How Movies Help Elucidate U.S. Nuclear History (11-1-08)Aaron Gerow: What Are Japanese Fantasy Films Telling Us? (2-26-06)Gordon Arnold: The Strange Afterlife of the Vietnam War (8-19-06)David McNeill: Clint Eastwood's Iwo Jima (2-12-06)Jeremy Black: What We Can Learn from James Bond? (1-24-06)Jennifer Gaboury: Women Warriors Are the Rage in Hollywood--But What Was the Truth? (9-7-04)Thomas Palaima: The Difference Between Hollywood's Troy and Homer's (5-18-04)Rick Shenkman: How Hollywood Imagines American Presidents (10-22-03)Film ReviewsBruce Chadwick: Red Tails: World War II’s Tuskegee Airmen Fly Again in Film and on Stage but Much History is Ignored (1-30-12)Lee P. Ruddin: The Devil's Double (10-11-11)Lee P. Ruddin: Of Gods and Men (2-17-11)Ron Briley: The Conspirator: Film and Historical Truth (2-6-11)NYT: Finding the Humanity in the F.B.I.’s Feared Enforcer (11-8-11)Salon: Made in Dagenham: A patronizing film about working-class feminism (11-18-10)Robert Brent Toplin: What Happened to Our Money? Oliver Stone Returns to Wall Street (10-3-10)Richard Bernstein: Sadism Gets a Pass at the Movies (a review of Inglorious Basterds) (9-9-09)Robert Brent Toplin: W.: History and Psychology from Oliver Stone (10-26-08)Anthony B. Toth: Disney's Hidalgo: A New Hollywood Low (3-31-08)Jonathan Dresner: How True to History is Tom Cruise's The Last Samurai? (8-8-05)Timothy R. Furnish: Kingdom of Heaven: What Parts Are Real? (5-16-05)Tom Engelhardt: The Iraq War: The Movie (And Why It Is Such a Dud) (5-26-03)Robert Brent Toplin: Why Gangs of New York Doesn't Deserve an Oscar (3-13-03)History Movie/Movie History NewsMeryl Streep film The Iron Lady is criticised by Margaret Thatcher's biographer (12-16-11)Christian Bale defends 'Rape of Nanjing' film (12-12-11)Lost Alfred Hitchcock film found in New Zealand (8-3-11)Hollywood turns to history (7-22-11)Aside From the Vampires, Lincoln Film Seeks Accuracy (5-9-11)Why is King John always the villian in movies? Because he really was awful, say historians (3-1-11)World War II-Era Film in NLM Collection Named to National Film Registry (6-6-11)Making Hollywood Films Was Brutal, Even for Fritz Lang (1-23-11)The silence of the silent movies (7-8-10)Portraits of Hollywood’s Founding Power Players (11-1-10)The 10 most historically inaccurate movies (8-4-09)Top 10 Movies About Academic Life (6-2-09)High Noon, Godfather II, Grand Illusion, and 22 other indispensable movies for understanding war and diplomacy (5-4-09)Nixon and the movies (1-23-09)How the Movies Made a President (1-16-09)Howard Zinn dismisses trivial in history movies (1-16-09)Frost/Nixon critic: Movies no place to learn real history (12-2-08)10 most historically inaccurate movies (3-29-08)Can movies teach us about African-American history? (2-7-08)The Afterlife Is Expensive for Digital Movies (12-23-07)The History of Surf Movies (6-1-07)The day Hollywood sent James Stewart to a brothel to make a man of him (11-5-06)AHA explains why film reviews have been suspended at the AHR (5-1-06)How Ray Allen Billington Picks the Movies Listed as Historic by the Library of Congress (2-5-04)Patrick Rael: Gods and Generals is Good Hollywood -- Don't Go See It (2-24-03)Hollywood: 3 Top Movie Myths About Pearl Harbor (8-27-02) BooksJim Cullen: Review of Steven J. Ross's "Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics" (Oxford, 2011) (12-20-11 Ron Briley: Review of Jennifer Frost's "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood: Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism" (New York University Press, 2011) (7-13-11)Andrew Feffer, Review of Robert Brent Toplin's "History by Hollywood" (University of Illinois Press, 2010) (6-27-10)
