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Celluloid soldiers : the Warner Bros. campaign against Nazism /

During the 1930s many Americans avoided thinking about war erupting in Europe, believing it of little relevance to their own lives. Yet, the Warner Bros. film studio embarked on a virtual crusade to alert Americans to the growing menace of Nazism. Polish-Jewish immigrants Harry and Jack Warner riske...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Birdwell, Michael E., 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Warner Bros. and the opening salvos against Nazism, 1934-1939
  • Black Legion: fascism in the heartland
  • The road to Confessions of a Nazi spy and beyond
  • A change of heart: Alvin York and the movie Sergeant York
  • Using the devil's tool to do God's work: Sergeant York, America first, and the intervention debate
  • Hollywood under the gun: the Senate investigation of propaganda in motion pictures
  • "This isn't what we had in mind."