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The Star-Spangled Screen

Bernard F. Dick
The Star Spangled Screen Book PDF

Author : Bernard F. Dick
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813196800

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The American World War II film depicted a united America, a mythic America in which the average guy, the girl next door, the 4-F patriot, and the grieving mother were suddenly transformed into heroes and heroines, warriors and goddesses. The Star-Spangled Screen examines the historical accuracy—or lack thereof—of films about the Third Reich, the Resistance, and major military campaigns. Concerned primarily with the films of the war years, it also includes discussions of such postwar movies as Battleground (1949), Attack! (1956), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and Patton (1970). This revised edition includes new material covering recent films such as Saving Private Ryan (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001), Dunkirk (2017), and JoJo Rabbit (2019), and their place in the war movie tradition. The Star-Spangled Screen makes a major contribution to popular culture by re-creating an era that, for all its tragedy, was one of the most creative in the history of American film.

Mary Young Pickersgill Flag Maker of the Star-Spangled Banner

Sally Johnston and Pat Pilling
Mary Young Pickersgill Flag Maker of the Star Spangled Banner Book PDF

Author : Sally Johnston and Pat Pilling
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496943170

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Mary Young Pickersgill Flag Maker of the Star-Spangled Banner by Sally Johnston and Pat Pilling Pdf

Mary Pickersgill and the Star-Spangled Banner tells the story of how a young widow in the summer of 1813 made two large flags for Fort McHenry in Baltimore. The young United States was at war with Great Britain, and Fort McHenry prepared for an attack from the British. All was ready at the fort except for a proper set of flags. George Armistead, commander at Fort McHenry, needed the hand sewn flags in a hurry giving Mary Pickersgill just six weeks to produce them. This book will explain how Mary Pickersgill learned to make flags, where she obtained the four hundred yards of fabric, woven only in England, to make the flag, how she organized a small work force of young women, including a free African-American indentured servant, to sew the flags and where she found a workplace to make such large flags. Surprisingly, Mary Pickersgill did not consider sewing the Star-Spangled Banner the greatest accomplishment of her life. Under her leadership, a Baltimore charitable organization helped poor widows find work to support their families. The organization raised the funds to build the Home for Aged Widows that opened with great publicity and fanfare six years before Mary Pickersgill died. The Pickersgill Retirement Home in Towson has its roots in Mary Pickersgill’s crowning achievement of her lifetime. The stirring history of Mary Pickersgill’s family is included in the book and helps explain Mary Pickersgill’s drive and determination to produce the flags for Fort McHenry when the city of Baltimore was under imminent attack. The book also describes how the Star-Spangled Banner became the most important object in the Smithsonian’s vast collection. In addition, the book recounts the history of the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House Association that preserved the little house on the corner of Pratt and Albemarle Streets as a museum to honor Mary Pickersgill’s legacy.

America's National Anthem

John R. Vile
America s National Anthem Book PDF

Author : John R. Vile
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440873195

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America's National Anthem by John R. Vile Pdf

This A–Z encyclopedia is a one-stop resource for understanding the history and evolution of the national anthem in American politics, culture, and mythology, as well as controversies surrounding its emergence as a lightning rod for political protests and statements. This reference work serves as a comprehensive resource for understanding all aspects of the national anthem and its significance in U.S. history and American life and culture. It covers the origins of the song and its selection as the nation's official anthem and acknowledges other musical compositions proposed as national anthems. It discusses famous performances of the anthem and details laws and court decisions related to its performance, and it also explains notable phrases in its lyrics, describes the meaning of the national anthem to different demographic groups, and surveys presentations and celebrations of "The Star-Spangled Banner" in popular culture. Moreover, it summarizes famous political protests undertaken during renditions of the national anthem, from the Black Power salutes by U.S. athletes during the 1968 Olympics to the kneeling protests undertaken by Colin Kaepernick and other NFL players to bring attention to racial inequality in America.

Beyond the Screen

Marta Braun,Charlie Keil,Rob King,Paul Moore
Beyond the Screen Book PDF

Author : Marta Braun,Charlie Keil,Rob King,Paul Moore
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780861969135

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Beyond the Screen by Marta Braun,Charlie Keil,Rob King,Paul Moore Pdf

This scholarly anthology presents a new framework for understanding early cinema through its usage outside the realm of entertainment. From its earliest origins until the beginning of the twentieth century, cinema provided widespread access to remote parts of the globe and immediate reports on important events. Reaching beyond the nickelodeon theatres, cinema became part of numerous institutions, from churches and schools to department stores and charitable organizations. Then, in 1915, the Supreme Court declared moviemaking a “busines, pure and simple,” entrenching the film industry’s role as a producer of “harmless entertainment.” In Beyond the Screen, contributors shed light on how pre-1915 cinema defined itself through institutional interconnections and publics interested in science, education, religious uplift, labor organizing, and more.

American Militarism on the Small Screen

Anna Froula,Stacy Takacs
American Militarism on the Small Screen Book PDF

Author : Anna Froula,Stacy Takacs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317402886

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American Militarism on the Small Screen by Anna Froula,Stacy Takacs Pdf

Anna Froula is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of English at East Carolina University, USA Stacy Takacs is Associate Professor and Director of American Studies at Oklahoma State University, USA

The Screening of America

Tom O'Brien
The Screening of America Book PDF

Author : Tom O'Brien
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474287982

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The Screening of America by Tom O'Brien Pdf

This is an original investigation of how movies have reflected and helped to shape the values of a generation. From All the President's Men to Wall Street, US films of the 1970s and 80s were a kaleidoscope of shifting values and contrasting moral viewpoints. Knowing that movies mirror the way we think we are – or would like to be – O'Brien focuses on the key values (or their absence) found in films from this period in order to see more clearly what Americans really cherished in life, and how these values have evolved or changed. Comprehensive and thought provoking, this book addresses how and why movies glamorized and portrayed certain professions; the changing role of women; the targeting of religion for satire; the addressing of environmental issues and film's representation of and engagement with history.

Screening America

James J Lorence
Screening America Book PDF

Author : James J Lorence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781315510279

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Screening America by James J Lorence Pdf

By combining the study of films with the text-based primary sources, Screening America gives students clear guidance in studying, interpreting, and understanding the motion picture's significance as a primary source in investigating U.S. History.Students will come to understand history as not only the record of what governments did, but also the way in which people lived their lives, experienced the wider world, and engaged in leisure pursuits, from which we can learn much about the society in which they lived.

The Screen Is Red

Bernard F. Dick
The Screen Is Red Book PDF

Author : Bernard F. Dick
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781496805409

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The Screen Is Red by Bernard F. Dick Pdf

The Screen Is Red portrays Hollywood's ambivalence toward the former Soviet Union before, during, and after the Cold War. In the 1930s, communism combated its alter ego, fascism, yet both threatened to undermine the capitalist system, the movie industry's foundational core value. Hollywood portrayed fascism as the greater threat and communism as an aberration embraced by young idealists unaware of its dark side. In Ninotchka, all a female commissar needs is a trip to Paris to convert her to capitalism and the luxuries it can offer. The scenario changed when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, making Russia a short-lived ally. The Soviets were quickly glorified in such films as Song of Russia, The North Star, Mission to Moscow, Days of Glory, and Counter-Attack. But once the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, the scenario changed again. America was now swarming with Soviet agents attempting to steal some crucial piece of microfilm. On screen, the atomic detonations in the Southwest produced mutations in ants, locusts, and spiders, and revived long-dead monsters from their watery tombs. The movies did not blame the atom bomb specifically but showed what horrors might result in addition to the iconic mushroom cloud. Through the lens of Hollywood, a nuclear war might leave a handful of survivors (Five), none (On the Beach, Dr. Strangelove), or cities in ruins (Fail-Safe). Today the threat is no longer the Soviet Union, but international terrorism. Author Bernard F. Dick argues, however, that the Soviet Union has not lost its appeal, as evident from the popular and critically acclaimed television series The Americans. More than eighty years later, the screen is still red.

Hollywood Traitors

Allan Ryskind
Hollywood Traitors Book PDF

Author : Allan Ryskind
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781621572060

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Hollywood Traitors by Allan Ryskind Pdf

Allan Ryskind, son of Marx Brothers screenwriter Morrie Ryskind (Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera, Room Service), exposes the ugly truth about the Communists blacklisted from the film industry. Too often, the "Hollywood Ten" brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee are memorialized as victims of an unjust witch-hunt and heroes who stood up for free speech. The truth is shocking: Not only did these supposed liberal paragons adore Josef Stalin and take their orders directly from the Communist Party, but they also sympathized with Adolf Hitler. Ryskind, who grew up in the heart of the Hollywood scene and personally knew many of the key players in this real-life Hollywood drama, has penned a definitive, myth-busting account of the Hollywood Ten and Hollywood Blacklist that will forever change the way you think about the ideological battle waged in the movie capital of the world. With glossy photographs.

The Star-Spangled Triangle

James Luce
The Star Spangled Triangle Book PDF

Author : James Luce
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491735404

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The Star-Spangled Triangle by James Luce Pdf

In 2019, the United States is a changed nation. After a recent civil war and a rewritten Constitution, only forty-two states remain within what is now known as the Federated States of America. As President Meryl Montessori attempts to gain full control of a country riddled by violence, sociopathic FBI director, Beatrice Orange, begins to piece together a complex plot to overthrow the new government. On the international front, China and Russia are at war. A deadly, incurable virus hidden by the Russians in an ancient fortress must be located and destroyed before steadily advancing Chinese armies release it on an unsuspecting world. From Washington, D.C., the president deploys her eclectic Blue Battalion team to bring down the director and destroy the virus. After crime fighter Peter Hassel and street cop Rachael Rothburg survive an attempted assassination, they join eccentric scientist, Dr. Frank Stein, and other members of the Blue Battalion team to investigate Orange's plan. But as they begin to uncover seedy secrets, an adolescent alien life form with a reputation for interfering in human affairs prepares to make a reappearance. The Star-Spangled Triangle is the story of a new nation and its struggles to survive as a startling future history unfolds and a team of great minds attempts to bring down an evil leader.

Journalism in the Movies

Matthew C. Ehrlich
Journalism in the Movies Book PDF

Author : Matthew C. Ehrlich
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252029348

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Journalism in the Movies by Matthew C. Ehrlich Pdf

Matthew C. Ehrlich's Journalism in the Movies is the story of Hollywood's depiction of American journalism from the start of the sound era to the present. Ehrlich argues that films have relentlessly played off the image of the journalist as someone who sees through lies and hypocrisy, sticks up for the little guy, and serves democracy. Focusing on films about key figures and events in journalism, including Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, All the President's Men, and The Insider, Journalism in the Movies presents a unique opportunity to reflect on how movies relate not only to journalism but also American life and democracy.

Hollywood Goes to War

Clayton R. Koppes,Gregory D. Black
Hollywood Goes to War Book PDF

Author : Clayton R. Koppes,Gregory D. Black
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1990-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0520071611

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Hollywood Goes to War by Clayton R. Koppes,Gregory D. Black Pdf

The little-explored story of how politics, propaganda, and profits were combined to create the drama, imagery and fantasy that was American film during World War II. 32 black-and-white photographs.

War & Press Freedom

Jeffery Alan Smith
War Press Freedom Book PDF

Author : Jeffery Alan Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Freedom of the press
ISBN : 9780195099461

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War & Press Freedom by Jeffery Alan Smith Pdf

War and Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative Power is a groundbreaking and provocative study of one of the most perplexing civil liberties issues in American history: What authority does or should the government have to control press coverage and commentary in wartime? First Amendment scholar Jeffery A. Smith shows convincingly that no such extraordinary power exists under the Constitution, and that officials have had to rely on claiming the existence of an autocratic "higher law" of survival. Smith carefully surveys the development of statutory restrictions and military regulations for the news media from the ratification of the Bill of Rights in 1791 through the Gulf War of 1991. He concludes that the armed forces can justify refusal to divulge a narrow range of defense secrets, but that imposing other restrictions is unwise, unnecessary, and unconstitutional. In any event, as electronic communication becomes almost impossible to constrain, soldiers and journalists must learn how to respect each other's obligations in a democratic system.

A History of Video Art

Chris Meigh-Andrews
A History of Video Art Book PDF

Author : Chris Meigh-Andrews
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780857851888

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A History of Video Art by Chris Meigh-Andrews Pdf

A History of Video Art is a revised and expanded edition of the 2006 original, which extends the scope of the first edition, incorporating a wider range of artists and works from across the globe and explores and examines developments in the genre of artists' video from the mid 1990s up to the present day. In addition, the new edition expands and updates the discussion of theoretical concepts and ideas which underpin contemporary artists' video. Tracking the changing forms of video art in relation to the revolution in electronic and digital imaging that has taken place during the last 50 years, A History of Video Art orients video art in the wider art historical context, with particular reference to the shift from the structuralism of the late 1960s and early 1970s to the post-modernist concerns of the 1980s and early 1990s. The new edition also explores the implications of the internationalisation of artists' video in the period leading up to the new millennium and its concerns and preoccupations including post-colonialism, the post-medium condition and the impact and influence of the internet.

Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939–1945

M.B.B. Biskupski
Hollywood s War with Poland 1939 1945 Book PDF

Author : M.B.B. Biskupski
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813139326

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Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939–1945 by M.B.B. Biskupski Pdf

“This passionate, carefully researched, richly detailed, well-written study” reveals the political motives behind WWII Hollywood’s portrayal of Poles (Choice). During World War II, Hollywood studios supported the war effort by making patriotic movies designed to raise the nation's morale. Often the characterizations were as black and white as the movies themselves: Americans and their allies were heroes, while everyone else was a villain. The peoples of Norway, France, Czechoslovakia, and England were all good because they had been invaded or victimized by Nazi Germany. Yet Poland—the first country to be invaded by the Third Reich—was repeatedly represented in a negative light. In this prize-winning study, Polish historian M. B. B. Biskupski explores why. Biskupski presents a close critical study of prewar and wartime films such as To Be or Not to Be, In Our Time, and None Shall Escape. Through memoirs, letters, diaries, and memoranda written by screenwriters, directors, studio heads, and actors, Biskupski examines how the political climate, and especially pro-Soviet sentiment, influenced Hollywood films of the time. Winner of the Oscar Halecki Prize A Choice Outstanding Academic Title