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Title: Right-Wing HIstory Goes to the movies
Review: The author's historiographic slant is extremely conservative. He claims that the portrait of "nuts and bolts plantation operations" in Gone With the Wind, is "right on the money". Reviewing Ken Loach's Land and Freedom he denies that Franco was a fascist. Of Platoon he claims that Oliver Stone vastly exaggerates the extent of atrocities like My Lai. So this is historical film as seen through the eyes of a "history buff" apparently unacquainted with current history writing, or even journalistc accounts. Even if the reader sympathizes with, or is willing to overlook the author's political ideology, ninety percent of each entry is historical background. So there's really very little about each film, and far to much of the author's own revision of history. Given the need for such a book, and the appealing title, "History Goes to the Movies" is a major disappointment.
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