Topin, Ed., Oliver Stone'S U.S.A - Film, History, And Controversy

Abstract

Oliver Stone, more consistently than any other director, has presented moviegoers, film critics, and historians-amateur and professional-with radical and challenging perspectives on pivotal events and themes in post-World War II American history. Avowedly not a "cinematic historian," a point Stone makes several times in this edited volume of essays about his work, he is intent on setting the record straight about the role of history in his films. As an historical dramatist, the films, he writes, are "fiction . . . based on a combination of research, intuition, and my private conscience."