One World, Big Screen : Hollywood, the Allies, and World War II /

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World War II coincided with cinema's golden age. Movies now considered classics were created when all sides in the war were coming to realize the great power of popular films to motivate the masses. Through multinational research, this book reveals how the Grand Alliance - Britain, China, the S...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bennett, M. Todd (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
War and motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Political aspects.
Motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
ART > Film & Video.
Cinema > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Cinema et guerre.
Motion pictures > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Motion pictures and the war.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The "magic bullet": Hollywood, Washington, and the moviegoing public
  • "Pro-British-American war preachers": internationalism at the movies, 1939-1941
  • One world, big screen: the United Nations and American horizons
  • Kissing cousins: how Anglo-American relations became "special"
  • Courting Uncle Joe: the theatrics of Soviet-American matrimony
  • Negotiating the color divide: race and U.S. paternalism toward China
  • Conclusion.

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