Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939-1945
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Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939-1945

  1. 290 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939-1945

About this book

During World War II, Hollywood studios supported the war effort by making patriotic movies designed to raise the nation's morale. They often portrayed the combatants in very simple terms: Americans and their allies were heroes, and everyone else was a villain. Norway, France, Czechoslovakia, and England were all good because they had been invaded or victimized by Nazi Germany. Poland, however, was represented in a negative light in numerous movies. In Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939-1945, M. B. B. Biskupski draws on a close study of prewar and wartime films such as To Be or Not to Be (1942), In Our Time (1944), and None Shall Escape (1944). He researched memoirs, letters, diaries, and memoranda written by screenwriters, directors, studio heads, and actors to explore the negative portrayal of Poland during World War II. Biskupski also examines the political climate that influenced Hollywood films.

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. The Polish Presence in American Cinema before 1939
  7. 2. Poland in the Second World War
  8. 3. Radical Hollywood and Poland
  9. 4. The Roosevelt Administration and Film during the War
  10. 5. Hollywood's Version of the War: The Polish Films
  11. 6. Poland: Fleeting, Ambiguous, or Omitted
  12. Photo insert
  13. 7. Hollywood and the American Poles during the War
  14. 8. Why Hollywood Was at War with the Poles
  15. Conclusion
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index