Table of Contents

Lessons from Hollywood's American Revolution (Revolution ; The Patriot)
Rattling the chains of history : Steven Spielberg's Amistad and "telling everyone's story" (Roots ; Amistad)
Hollywood's Civil War dilemma : to imagine or unravel the nation? (Gettysburg ; Glory ; Ride with the devil ; Cold Mountain)
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)
Oliver Stone and the decade of trauma (Platoon ; Born on the fourth of July ; Heaven and Earth ; JFK ; Nixon)
From civil rights to black nationalism : Hollywood v. black America? (Panther ; Mississippi burning ; The hurricane ; Malcolm X ; Ali)
Hollywood's post-Cold War history : the "righteousness" of American interventionism (Three kings ; Black Hawk down)

About the Author

TREVOR McCRISKEN is lecturer in American politics and international studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of American Exceptionalism and the Legacy of Vietnam: US Foreign Policy Since 1974.

ANDREW PEPPER is lecturer in English and American literature at Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author of The Contemporary American Crime Novel.