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Why we fought : America's wars in film and history /

This book makes a powerful case that film can be as valuable a tool as primary documents for improving our understanding of the causes and consequences of war. Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History is a comprehensive look at war films, from depictions of the American Revolution to p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rollins, Peter C. (Editor ), O'Connor, John E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 2008.
Colección:Film & history (Lexington, Ky.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a The American revolution on the screen: Drums along the Mohawk and The patriot / John E. O'Connor -- Reprinting the legend: the Alamo on film / Frank Thompson -- Assessing television's version of history: the Mexican-American war and the KERA documentary series / James Yates -- Ken Burns's rebirth of a nation: The civil war as made-for-television history / Gary R. Edgerton -- "It's what people say we're fighting for": representing the lost cause in Cold mountain / Robert M. Myers -- The great war viewed from the 1920s: The big parade / Michael T. Isenberg -- Technology and "reel patriotism" in American film advertising of the World War I era / James Latham -- Culture wars and the local screen: the reception of westfront 1918 and All quiet on the western front in one German city / David Imhoof -- The peace, isolationist, and anti-interventionist movements and interwar Hollywood / John Whiteclay Chambers II -- The B movie goes to war in Hitler, beast of Berlin / Cynthia J. Miller -- Why we fight and Projections of America: Frank Capra, Robert Riskin, and the making of World War II propaganda / Ian S. Scott -- On telling the truth about war: World War II and Hollywood's moral fiction, 1945-1956 / Frank J. Wetta, Martin A. Novelli -- James Jones, Columbia Pictures, and the historical confrontations of From here to eternity / J.E. Smyth -- Hollywood's D-Day from the perspective of the 1960s and 1990s: The longest day and Saving Private Ryan / Robert Brent Toplin -- Cold War Berlin in the movies: from The big lift to The promise / Thomas W. Maulucci Jr / Invaders of the Cold War: generic disruptions and shifting gender roles in The day the earth stood still / Susan A. George -- Using popular culture to study the Vietnam War: perils and possibilities / Peter C. Rollins -- Fragments of war: Oliver Stone's Platoon / Lawrence W. Lichty, Raymond L. Carroll -- The quiet American: Graham Greene's Vietnam novel through the lenses of two eras / William S. Bushnell -- Operation restore honor in Black hawk down / John Shelton Lawrence, John G. McGarrahan -- Documentary and the Iraq War: a new genre for new realities / Jeffrey Chown -- Jessica Lynch and the regeneration of American identity post 9/11 / Stacy Takacs -- Representing the unrepresentable: 9/11 on film and television / James Kendrick. 
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