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Books on: "war films" OR (war AND "motion pictures")

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Nuclear War Films

Book by Jack G. Shaheen; Southern Illinois University Press, 1978

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Fiction, Nuclear Warfare In Motion Pictures, War Films--History And Criticism

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...in Publication Data Main entry under title: Nuclear war films. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. War films -- History and criticism. 2. Atomic warfare in motion pictures. 1. Shaheen, Jack G., 1935- PN1995.9.W3N8...
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Celluloid Wars: A Guide to Film and the American Experience of War

Book by Frank J. Wetta, Stephen J. Curley; Greenwood Press, 1992

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United States--In Motion Pictures, War Films--United States--Bibliography, War Films--United States--Catalogs, War Films--United States--History And Criticism

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...in Print see "War films" in the subject...or article about war films see items cited...subject heading "War films" in their card...also: specific wars, e.g., "World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war...
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Armed Forces: Masculinity and Sexuality in the American War Film

Book by Robert Eberwein; Rutgers University Press, 2007

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Male Friendship In Motion Pictures, Masculinity In Motion Pictures, War Films--United States--History And Criticism

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...sexuality in the American war film / Robert Eberwein...pbk.: alk. paper) 1. War films United States History and...2. Male friendship in motion pictures. 3. Masculinity in motion pictures. I. Title. PN1995.9...
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Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War

Book by Gary W. Gallagher; University of North Carolina Press, 2008

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Historical Films--United States--History And Criticism, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Historiography, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Motion Pictures And The War, War Films--United States--History And Criticism

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Veterans is engaged in a constant war on two fronts, it observed...Jakes wrote a third Civil War era novel, titled Heaven and...an annotated list of Civil War films from the late nineteenth century...Spehr, comp., The Civil War in Motion Pictures: A Bibliography of Films Produced...
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Inventing Vietnam: The War in Film and Television

Book by Michael Anderegg; Temple University Press, 1991

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Television Plays, American--History And Criticism, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Motion Pictures And The Conflict, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Press Coverage, War Films--United States--History And Criticism

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Publication Data Anderegg, Michael A. Inventing Vietnam: the war in film and television / edited by Michael Anderegg . p...862-0 paper . 1. Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975-Motion pictures and the conflict. 2. War films--United States--History and criticism . 3. Television...

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Journal Articles on: "war films" OR (war AND "motion pictures")

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Managing the Medium: The Navy and Motion Pictures Before World War I

Journal article by Frederick S. Harrod; Velvet Light Trap, Vol. not cited, 1993

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Motion Pictures

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...how it wanted to control motion pictures. Given the federal governments...film industry for its own war propaganda purposes (in...of the twentieth century, motion pictures were transformed from a novelty...begin at the onset of World War I. Yet by that time the...service a natural subject for motion pictures. At the same time the film...
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Susan C. Boyd, Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the U.S

Journal article by Michelle Brown; Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol. 33, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the U.S. (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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Susan C. Boyd, Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the U...Brown Susan C. Boyd, Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the U...and occasionally they challenge war-on-drugs narratives," she alerts...
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Technology and "Reel Patriotism" in American Film Advertising of the World War I Era

Journal article by James Latham; West Virginia University Philological Papers, Vol. 51, 2004

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Advertising campaigns--Influence, Advertising campaigns--Political aspects, Advertising campaigns--Social aspects, Mass media criticism, United States (World War I), War films--Advertising, War in motion pictures--Advertising, War movies--Advertising

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...film supposedly contained "The first motion pictures of this colossus of the military world...Prussia." Another ad described official war pictures as having just arrived from...Civilization. Inces earlier film depicts a war-loving Teutonic Count changing his...atrocities into becoming an opponent of the war. While on a climactic bombing mission...American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States). Whereas...
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Movie Images of Disability and War

Journal article by Stephen P. Safran; Remedial and Special Education, Vol. 22, 2001

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All Quiet on the Western Front (Motion picture)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Coming Home (Motion picture)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Disability--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Motion pictures--Analysis, Platoon (Motion picture)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Best Years of Our Lives (Motion picture)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Deer Hunter (Motion picture)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., War films--Analysis, War--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

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...other disabilities are common outcomes of war, challenging families, communities...veterans and injured civilians. Images of war and returning veterans are common motion...fabric. For example, popular, "moral" wars such as World War II project patriotic metaphors and feature...sacrifice to victimization in an unjust war. Motion pictures may also have a substantial impact on...
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Scarlett O'Hara as Confederate Woman

Journal article by Katherine Lane Antolini; West Virginia University Philological Papers, Vol. 51, 2004

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Dramatic characterization--Criticism and interpretation, Female identity--Political aspects, Female identity--Psychological aspects, Female identity--Social aspects, Gone with the Wind (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, United States Civil War, 1861-1865--Portrayals, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Portrayals, War films--Criticism and interpretation, War in motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, War movies--Criticism and interpretation

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...The Bread Riot in Richmond." The Womens War in the South: Recollections of the American Civil War. Ed. Charles G. Waugh and Martin H...Little, 1973. Rable, George C. Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism...Harries: A Piedmont Farmer during the Civil War." The Womens War in the South: Recollections...

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Magazine Articles on: "war films" OR (war AND "motion pictures")

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Celluloid Wars: Vietnam

Magazine article by Charles Foran; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 112, Summer 2005

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Vietnam War, 1959-1975--Portrayals, Vietnam--Description and travel, Vietnam--Military aspects, Vietnam--Portrayals, War films--Criticism and interpretation, War in motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, War movies--Criticism and interpretation

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Celluloid Wars: Vietnam. by Charles Foran...known what it was to lose a war, and the shock and soul-searching...very different views of the war--those of The Deer Hunter...of memories. The celluloid war has raged ever since. Apocalypse...other afterwards. "All Vietnam war films are pro-war," he writes...
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The Unknown Soldiers: Tobias Grey Introduces a Film about the North African Soldiers in the Second World War Which Has Taken France by Storm, and Is Opening in Britain on March 30th

Magazine article by Tobias Grey; History Today, Vol. 57, April 2007

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Bouchareb, Rachid--Works, Days of Glory (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, Filmmakers--Works, Movie directors--Works, North Africa Campaign, 1940-1942--History, War films--Criticism and interpretation, War in motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, War movies--Criticism and interpretation

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...Soldiers in the Second World War Which Has Taken France by Storm...the Allies in the Second World War, making Indigenes (literally...making the first big budget war movie to address the roughly...Indigenes. Both are ostensibly war films which deal with the subject...
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The Return of the Paranoid Style: How the Iraq War and George W. Bush Sent the Movie Industry Back to Its Favorite Era-The 1970s

Magazine article by Ross Douthat; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 301, April 2008

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Iraq War, 2003---Influence, Motion picture industry--Influence, Motion picture industry--Military aspects, Motion picture industry--Political aspects, Movie industry--Influence, Movie industry--Military aspects, Movie industry--Political aspects, War films--Forecasts and trends, War in motion pictures--Forecasts and trends, War movies--Forecasts and trends

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...their law-abiding neighbors alike, the wars that followed 9/11 are for other families...the-70s moment really is. The Vietnam War was a cultural phenomenon in part because...and used box-office hits such as Star Wars (1977) and the Indiana Jones saga as...Hollywood was still grappling with the Vietnam War--in Platoon (1986) and Full Metal...nightmares didnt end when the Vietnam War did; it persisted through Ford and Carter...interview with Ross Douthat about the wars effect on Hollywood visit www.theatlantic...
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Storming the Home Front: Directors of Today's War Movies, with Their Insistence on Graphic Bloodletting and Happy Endings, Should Look at the Original World War II Movies, Which Were Subtly Subversive

Magazine article by Francis Davis; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 291, March 2003

Subjects:

Motion picture industry--History, Motion picture industry--Product information, Motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, Motion pictures--History, Motion pictures--Military aspects, Movie industry--History, Movie industry--Product information, Movies--Criticism and interpretation, Movies--History, Movies--Military aspects, War films, War in motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, War movies--Criticism and interpretation

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...Storming the Home Front: Directors of Todays War Movies, with Their Insistence on Graphic...Endings, Should Look at the Original World War II Movies, Which Were Subtly Subversive...Wylers 1946 melodrama about a trio of World War II veterans and their difficulties in readjusting...
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Sticking to the Script: During the Cold War, Hollywood's Anti-Soviet Message Was Loud and Clear. Today, the Film Industry Is More Likely to Censor by Omission, Writes John Pilger

Magazine article by John Pilger; New Statesman, Vol. 138, February 23, 2009

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Motion picture industry--Forecasts and trends, Motion picture industry--Military aspects, Motion picture industry--Political aspects, Movie industry--Forecasts and trends, Movie industry--Military aspects, Movie industry--Political aspects, War films--Evaluation, War films--Forecasts and trends, War in motion pictures--Evaluation, War in motion pictures--Forecasts and trends, War movies--Evaluation, War movies--Forecasts and trends

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...way into cinemas. My own 2007 film The War on Democracy, which inverted the "war on terror" in Latin America, was distributed...anti-Bush sequences." During the Cold War, Hollywoods state propaganda was unabashed...extraordinary times. Vicious colonial wars and political, economic and environmental...

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Newspaper Articles on: "war films" OR (war AND "motion pictures")

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Taking a Chance on War Films; Is Turning Point Possible in Public View on Iraq Movies?

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 13, 2009

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Iraq War, 2003-, Motion pictures, Movies, Soldiers, Ticket sales

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Taking a Chance on War Films; Is Turning Point Possible in Public...Its no secret that movies about the Iraq war have been box office flops. The reason...military. A new documentary, Brothers at War, and a highly rated recent HBO movie...
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War Film's Portrayal of Soldiers Draws Fire from GOP Lawmaker

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 22, 2007

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Glickman, Dan, Iraq War, 2003---Military aspects, Legislators--Military aspects, Motion pictures--Military aspects, Movies--Military aspects, Political parties--Military aspects, Soldiers--Military aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

War Films Portrayal of Soldiers Draws Fire from GOP...of America yesterday calling the new Iraq war film "Redacted" shameful in its view of...callous to the plight of civilians in the war zone, critics state. The real-life incident...
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ONE OF THE BEST WAR FILMS EVER MADE; with Dramatic Brilliance, Moral Complexity, Relentless Thrills and Matt Damon, Director Paul Greengrass Exposes the Terrible Lies That Stood Behind the Decision to Go War in Iraq; FILM OF THE WEEK

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 12, 2010

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Motion pictures, Movies

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ONE OF THE BEST WAR FILMS EVER MADE; with Dramatic Brilliance...15, 115 mins ***** NOT all great war films are anti-war. There was a time during...call to arms. But the very greatest war films, to which category Green Zone is a new...
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War Films Make Great Education, Says Hero Todd; (1) MOVIE LEGEND: Richard Todd (2) SERVICE: Todd during the War

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 22, 2008

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Motion pictures, Movies, Soldiers

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War Films Make Great Education, Says Hero Todd...Richard Todd (2) SERVICE: Todd during the War. Byline: George Mair HE was the real...watched The Dam Busters and other realistic war films, theywould be more aware of the great sacrifice...
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FREE 14 Classic War Films to Collect

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 13, 2009

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Motion pictures, Movies

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

FREE 14 Classic War Films to Collect. TODAY you can pick up the next free DVD in our brilliant new Classic War Movie DVD Collection -- Angels One Five...disc library of some of the greatest war films ever made. Or, if you prefer, just...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: "war films" OR (war AND "motion pictures")

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Motion Pictures

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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MOTION PICTURES movie-making as an art...tripped by wires. The first motion pictures made with a single camera...Will Rogers . During World War I the United States became...Studio Era In the post World War I period the production...
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Photography, Still

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...processing ; motion picture photography ; motion pictures . Early Developments The camera itself...corps, who documented the American Civil War, provided graphic evidence of the hellishness...lifestyles. With the coming of World War II photographers, including Margaret...documented the global conflict. The war was a stimulus to photography in other...
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Communications Industry

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...advertising, telecommunications, motion pictures, home videos, public relations...communication during World War I. The establishment of the...Photographs in the 1830s and motion pictures in the 1890s transmitted images...developed commercially after World War II, combined all of these...
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Censorship

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...considered radical. During the cold war many Americans worked to keep textbooks...Cultural Censorship Long before World War I there were vigilante attacks, such...literature and art, but it was after World War I that public controversy over censorship...called hate speech. The producers of motion pictures, dependent for success on widespread...
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Science Fiction

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...possibility, e.g., robots, space travel, interplanetary war, invasions from outer space. Science fiction is generally...Dicks satirical and philosophical vision of postnuclear war southern California in novels such as Do Androids Dream of...including film, television, and electronic games. Star Wars (1977) and its sequels and prequel, Close Encounters of...Terrestrial (1982) were among the most financially successful motion pictures ever produced. Bibliography See H. Harrison and B. W...

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