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Celluloid Wars: A Guide to Film and the American Experience of War » Read Now
by Frank J. Wetta, Stephen J. Curley. 302 pgs.

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This easy-to-use guide explores the relationships between film images and the experience of war, showing how films influence war-time behavior and how wars influence films. This unique reference combines essays on the aesthetic and historical aspects of war films with classifications and discussions...
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This easy-to-use guide explores the relationships between film images and the experience of war, showing how films influence war-time behavior and how wars influence films. This unique reference combines essays on the aesthetic and historical aspects of war films with classifications and discussions of films about different wars, a filmography arranged alphabetically with annotations, a bibliography of books and articles dealing with war films, a general guide for film study, along with separate indices to film titles, filmmakers, and subjects.
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Film and Propaganda in America: A Documentary History, Vol. 1: World War I » Read Now
by Richard Wood, David Culbert. 472 pgs.

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In this volume, the first of a five volume, 6000-page series, the editors bring together representative unpublished government documents relating to film production in the United States during World War I.
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Film and Propaganda in America: A Documentary History, Vol. 4: 1945 and After » Read Now
by Lawrence H. Suid, David Culbert. 518 pgs.

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In this volume, the first of a five volume, 6000-page series, the editors bring together representative unpublished government documents relating to film production in the United States during World War I.
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World War II, Film, and History » Read Now
by John Whiteclay Chambers, David Culbert. 187 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...record is impressive. A number of war films are counted among the classics of the medium. Many viewers credit war films with providing special moments of...fiction producer...
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Britain Can Take It: The British Cinema in the Second World War » Read Now
by Anthony Aldgate, Jeffrey Richards. 362 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This book charts a momentous period through the eyes of thirteen key films. Examining scripts, reviews and box-office returns, not to mention a mass of official documentation from the Home Office and censorship archives, it places each film in its social and political context to explore the...
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This book charts a momentous period through the eyes of thirteen key films. Examining scripts, reviews and box-office returns, not to mention a mass of official documentation from the Home Office and censorship archives, it places each film in its social and political context to explore the relationship between the propagandists and the film-makers.
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The Home-Front War: World War II and American Society (Chap. 3 "Hollywood and the Politics of Representation: Women, Workers, and African Americans in World War II Movies") » Read Now
by Kenneth Paul O'Brien, Lynn Hudson Parsons. 214 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This book is a collection of nine essays examining the impact of World War II on the American people. The contributions range from "macro" studies (the ways corporations sought to recruit women into the work force) to "micro" studies (the impact of the war on working conditions in Indiana) to...
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This book is a collection of nine essays examining the impact of World War II on the American people. The contributions range from "macro" studies (the ways corporations sought to recruit women into the work force) to "micro" studies (the impact of the war on working conditions in Indiana) to biography (the Congressional career of Margaret Chase Smith). Focusing as it does on the domestic scene, this study offers a comprehensive selection of the impact of the war on Americans, and the way it influenced concepts of gender, race, class, and ethnicity.
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Handbook of American Film Genres (Chap. 6 "The World War II Combat Film") » Read Now
by Wes D. Gehring. 412 pgs.

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"More genres, 19 in fact, are discussed than in other standard works. The 14 genres considered here by film scholar contributors other than Gehring include the adventure film, the western, the gangster film, film noir, the WW II combat film, the horror film, science fiction, fantasy, the musical...
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"More genres, 19 in fact, are discussed than in other standard works. The 14 genres considered here by film scholar contributors other than Gehring include the adventure film, the western, the gangster film, film noir, the WW II combat film, the horror film, science fiction, fantasy, the musical, melodrama, the social problem film, the biographical film, and the art film. The discussion of fine comedy genres by Gehring himself is far more extensive than in other genre studies, embracing screwball comedy, populist comedy, parody, black humor, and clown comedy. . . . Recommended for both undergraduate and graduate collections." Choice
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Nuclear War Films » Read Now
by Jack G. Shaheen. 193 pgs.

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...NUCLEAR WAR FILMS Edited by Jack G. Shaheen Foreword...Data Main entry under title: Nuclear war films. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. War films --...
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Images of the Algerian War: French Fiction and Film, 1954-1992 » Read Now
by Philip D. Dine. 272 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The memory of the Algerian war (1954-1962) continues to haunt French society. Although part of a much wider process of decolonization, the conflict was so traumatic that it brought France to the verge of civil war. Philip Dine has written the first full-length survey in any language of the French...
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The memory of the Algerian war (1954-1962) continues to haunt French society. Although part of a much wider process of decolonization, the conflict was so traumatic that it brought France to the verge of civil war. Philip Dine has written the first full-length survey in any language of the French fiction and film generated by the war, ranging from the writings of Camus to the cinema of Godard, and from the 1950s to the 1990s. Writers discussed include Camus, Etecherelli, Marie Cardinal, Genet, Millecam, Perec, and Jules Roy. Filmmakers covered include Godard, Ophuls, Varda, Schoendorffer, Marker, Resnais, and Demy. All quotations in French are accompanied by English translations.
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Search and Clear: Critical Responses to Selected Literature and Films of the Vietnam War » Read Now
by William J. Searle. 208 pgs.

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...to Selected Literature and Films of the Vietnam War Edited by William J...increasing one. Just as the Vietnam War films of the late 1970s stimulated...as the plethora of...
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Films on the Vietnam War, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars » Read Now
by Jenefer Shute, Gaylyn Studlar, David Desser. 12 pgs.

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...discuss the following Vietnam War films: Apocalypse Now, 1979 , 146 minutes...of the recent right-wing Vietnam War films, the fundamental textual mechanism...this writing...
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Inventing Vietnam: The War in Film and Television » Read Now
by Michael Anderegg. 316 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...1961-1975-Motion pictures and the conflict. 2. War films--United States--History and criticism...Race and Culture in the Vietnam War Films 81 ELLEN DRAPER 5 Finding...
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For Fighting and for Fun: Kubrick's Complicitous Critique in Full Metal Jacket, in Velvet Light Trap » Read Now
by Janet C. Moore. 9 pgs.

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...indiscriminate appetite, insofar as I see war films generally repeating the same metamessage...stable than they are in the earlier war films noted above. Michael Herr...
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Great War Narrative into Film: Transformation, Reception, and Reaction, in International Fiction Review » Read Now
by Ann P. Linder. 12 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...stated that most of the previous war films constituted "acts of impiety and...The high seriousness with which war films were viewed can be seen as early...that the film...
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Movie Images of Disability and War, in Remedial and Special Education » Read Now
by Stephen P. Safran. 10 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...parents, or co-workers. Further, films about war and disability can capture...intertwined within the context of war and the films n arrative to hold audience...TABLE 1...