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Hollywood or History?
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Contents
Introduction to Hollywood or History?
CHAPTER 1: Political Trauma
Voting Rights: Selma to Today
Us: Viewing Jordan Peele's Film Through aLens of Systematic Oppression
10s Across the Board: Paris Is Burningand LGBTQ Political Trauma
Exploring The Genocidal Continuumin American History X
CHAPTER 2: Natural Disasters and Disease
"A Storm in the Neighborhood"
Depictions of Spanish Influenza and Downton Abbey
Dead Ahead
Building Empathy

CHAPTER 3: War and Genocide
Rwandan Genocide
Telling the Story of the Armenian Genocide
Prisoners of War in the Pacific Theater
Between and Beyond Victim and Victimizer
CHAPTER 4: Historical Trauma
Examining Roman Gladiator Games to Understand "Painfotainment" in the Societies of Ancient Rome and Modern America
Working to Understand Historical Violence Through Film
The Great Gatsby, Income Inequality, Trauma, and a Future Global Depression
Should Jesse Owens Have Boycotted Hitler's Olympics?
CHAPTER 5: Transgenerational Trauma
Family as an Extension of Place

What's the Problem With a Little Elbow Room?
Mandela's Political Creativity
Just Mercy
About the Contributors