Pre-Owned The Hollywood History of the World (Paperback) by George MacDonald Fraser

9781860462016. New condition. Trade paperback. REVISED UPDATED ed. Language: English. Pages: 263. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 263 p. Contains: Illustrations. There is a fashionable myth that Hollywood always gets its history wrong. George MacDonald Fraser believes that it often gets it right, and that we owe a huge unacknowledged debt to the cinema as an illuminator of the story of mankind. Drawing on his experiences as an historical novelist, historian, and screenwriter, he puts the case for the costume movies - Biblical, classical, swashbuckler, imperial, Western, and even the gangster film - not only as entertainments but, at their best, as pictures of the past "more vivid than Tacitus or Gibbon or Macaulay."