Oliver, Willard M.

Crime, history, and Hollywood : learning criminal justice history through major motion pictures / Willard M. Oliver, Nancy E. Marion. - Durham, NC : Carolina Academic Press, c2013. - ix, 227 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Amistad & the trial of the Amistads (1839) -- September dawn & the Mountain Meadows Massacre (1857) -- Tombstone & the shootout at the O.K. Corral (1881) -- Eight men out & the fixing of the 1919 World Series (1919) -- St. Valentine's Day massacre & the American gangster Al Capone (1929) -- Public enemies & the hunt for John Dillinger (1934) -- In cold blood & the Clutter Family murders (1959) -- Escape from Alcatraz & the Alcatraz prison (1962) -- Mississippi burning & the murder of three civil rights workers (1964) -- All the president's men & the Watergate scandal.

9781594609756 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2012016546


Motion pictures and history.
Crime in popular culture.
Crime--History--United States--20th century.
Criminal justice, Administration of--History--United States--20th century.

PN1995.2 / .O45 2013

791.43/658