World War II on Film
eBook - ePub

World War II on Film

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

World War II on Film

About this book

World War II on Film examines the war through the lens of 12 films. The movies selected include productions made during World War II and in each succeeding decade, providing a sense of how different generations perceive the war. World War II on Film provides a succinct yet well-grounded appraisal of that war as seen through 12 representative films. The book separates fact from fiction, showing where the movies were accurate and where they departed from reality, and places them in the larger context of historical and social events. Each movie chosen represents a particular aspect of the conflict, including the air war over Europe, the condition of prisoners of war, Nazi atrocities, and the British evacuation at Dunkirk. Unlike most histories of Hollywood during World War II or the genre of war movies, World War II on Film examines in depth the relation between the depictions of events, beliefs, attitudes, and ways of life as seen on film with reality as documented by historians or recorded by journalists or eyewitnesses to the war. The volume will appeal to high school and college readers, as well as general interest readers and film buffs.

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Information

Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781440871580
eBook ISBN
9798216168782
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Film & Video
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Series Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Chronology
  10. 1. Saboteur (1942)
  11. 2. Casablanca (1942)
  12. 3. Twelve O’Clock High (1949)
  13. 4. From Here to Eternity (1953)
  14. 5. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  15. 6. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
  16. 7. Patton (1970)
  17. 8. Das Boot (1981)
  18. 9. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  19. 10. Enemy at the Gates (2001)
  20. 11. Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
  21. 12. Dunkirk (2017)
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index
  24. About the Author