Signal Boost: When History meet Hollywood

the-history-girls posted: The History Girls: When History meet Hollywood by Sarah Gristwood

There is no such thing as a fully historically accurate movie. How could there be, when there is no one single fully authentic version of history? But each generation (maybe even each person) makes their own demands as to the kind of accuracies they do and do not need- what Simon Schama called selective fastidiousness - and that can change quite dramatically.