War And Film In America

Author : Marilyn J. Matelski,Nancy Lynch Street
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786451463

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War and Film in America by Marilyn J. Matelski,Nancy Lynch Street Pdf

America's chief exports are war and entertainment; combined, they are the war films viewed all over the world. The film industry is a partner of the government; American film shapes the ways in which both Americans and others view war. The authors herein explore differing film perspectives across five decades. The essays, written especially for this volume, explore topics such as frontier justice, Cold War fervor, government-sponsored terrorism, the "back-to-Nam" films, films as a venue for propaganda, and war's far-reaching effects on personal values, family relationships, and general civility. The movies used in these analyses vary from conventional battle epics like Bridge on the River Kwai and The Green Berets to motion pictures with a war motif either as part of the story (The Way We Were) or as a historical setting (The Graduate). Some of the films are satirical (Dr. Strangelove); some are propagandistic (The Alamo, Big Jim McLain). Other films include Black Hawk Down, True Lies, The Deer Hunter, Patriot Games and Let There Be Light. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Guy Westwell
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1904764541

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War Cinema by Guy Westwell Pdf

'War Cinema' presents an introduction to and overview of films that take war as their main theme. Framing the era with 'Apocalypse Now' and 'Apocalypse Now Redux', the author initially focuses on Vietnam on film in the 1970s and 1980s and how this divisive war was represented.

Author : Cynthia Weber
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0415375363

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Imagining America at War by Cynthia Weber Pdf

Cynthia Weber presents a stimulating new study of how Americans construct their identity and the moral values that inform their foreign policy. She details how films released between 9/11 and Gulf War II reflect raging debates about US foreign policy and fundamental debates about what it means to be an American.

Author : Douglas Brode,Shea T. Brode,Cynthia J. Miller
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498566896

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The American Civil War on Film and TV by Douglas Brode,Shea T. Brode,Cynthia J. Miller Pdf

Whether on the big screen or small, films featuring the American Civil War are among the most classic and controversial in motion picture history. From D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915) to Free State of Jones (2016), the war has provided the setting, ideologies, and character archetypes for cinematic narratives of morality, race, gender, and nation, as well as serving as historical education for a century of Americans. In The American Civil War on Film and TV: Blue and Gray in Black and White and Color, Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, and Cynthia J. Miller bring together nineteen essays by a diverse array of scholars across the disciplines to explore these issues. The essays included here span a wide range of films, from the silent era to the present day, including Buster Keaton’s The General (1926), Red Badge of Courage (1951), Glory (1989), Gettysburg (1993), and Cold Mountain (2003), as well as television mini-series The Blue and The Gray (1982) and John Jakes’ acclaimed North and South trilogy (1985-86). As an accessible volume to dedicated to a critical conversation about the Civil War on film, The American Civil War on Film and TV will appeal to not only to scholars of film, military history, American history, and cultural history, but to fans of war films and period films, as well.

Author : Michael T. Isenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1158 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015010457136

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War on Film by Michael T. Isenberg Pdf

Author : Omar El Akkad
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771009402

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American War by Omar El Akkad Pdf

Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize A Globe and Mail Best Book A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Quill & Quire Best Book of 2017 An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle -- a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time and place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. Telling her story is her nephew, Benjamin Chestnut, born during war as one of the Miraculous Generation and now an old man confronting the dark secret of his past -- his family's role in the conflict and, in particular, that of his aunt, a woman who saved his life while destroying untold others.

Author : Eric Trenkamp
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1793647526

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Race, War, and the Cinematic Myth of America by Eric Trenkamp Pdf

This book examines how Hollywood has promoted the myth of the American White male savior and the way in which this myth has negatively affected people of color throughout U.S. history.

Author : David Luhrssen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216161912

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The Vietnam War on Film by David Luhrssen Pdf

Vietnam War on Film illustrates how to employ film as a teaching tool. It also stands on its own as an account of the war and the major films that have depicted it. Even for many people who experienced the Vietnam War first hand, memories of that conflict have often been shaped by the popular films that depicted it: The Quiet American, The Green Berets, The Deer Hunter, Coming Home, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and Apocalypse Now, among others. Vietnam War on Film examines how the war is portrayed through a selection of ten iconic films that represent the war through dramatization and storytelling as opposed to through documentary footage. The book includes an introduction to the war's history and a timeline of events, followed by ten chapters, each of which focuses on a specific Vietnam War movie. Chapters offer a uniquely detailed level of historical context for the films, weighing their depiction of events against the historical record and evaluating how well or how poorly those films reflected the truth and shaped public memory and discourse over the war. A final section of "Resources" provides a comprehensive annotated bibliography of print and electronic sources to aid students and teachers in further research.

Author : Linda Dittmar,Gene Michaud
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813515874

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From Hanoi to Hollywood by Linda Dittmar,Gene Michaud Pdf

Probing the large body of emotion-laden, controversial films, From Hanoi to Hollywood is concerned with the retelling of history and the retrospection that such a process involves. In this anthology, an awareness of film as a cultural artifact that molds beliefs and guides action is emphasized, an awareness that the contributors bring to a variety of films.

Author : Clayton R. Koppes,Gregory D. Black
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,7 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.

Author : J. David Slocum
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000938562

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Hollywood and War, The Film Reader by J. David Slocum Pdf

Discussing such classic films as Sergeant York, Air Force, and All Quiet on the Western Front, as well as more modern blockbusters like Apocalypse Now and Saving Private Ryan, this outstanding volume focuses on Hollywood and its production of war films. Topics covered include: the early formation of war cinema the apotheosis of the Hollywood war film the ascendancy of ambivalence Hollywood and the war since Vietnam war as a way of seeing. For any student of film studies or American cultural studies, this is a valuable companion.

Author : Michael S. Shull
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476621784

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Hollywood War Films, 1937Ð1945 by Michael S. Shull Pdf

From 1937 through 1945, Hollywood produced over 1,000 films relating to the war. This enormous and exhaustive reference work first analyzes the war films as sociopolitical documents. Part one, entitled “The Crisis Abroad, 1937–1941,” focuses on movies that reflected America’s increasing uneasiness. Part two, “Waging War, 1942–1945,” reveals that many movies made from 1942 through 1945 included at least some allusion to World War II.

Author : Frank J. Wetta,Stephen J. Curley
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015021576387

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Celluloid Wars by Frank J. Wetta,Stephen J. Curley Pdf

This easy-to-use guide explores the relationships between film images and the experience of war, showing how films influence war-time behavior and how wars influence films. This unique reference combines essays on the aesthetic and historical aspects of war films with classifications and discussions of films about different wars, a filmography arranged alphabetically with annotations, a bibliography of books and articles dealing with war films, a general guide for film study, along with separate indices to film titles, filmmakers, and subjects. This is both a research guide and text for serious scholars of military history and American popular culture, and an attractive reader for history buffs and for a general audience.

Author : McSweeney Terence McSweeney
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748693115

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War on Terror and American Film by McSweeney Terence McSweeney Pdf

This compelling, theoretically informed and up-to-date exploration of contemporary American cinema charts the evolution of the impact of 9/11 on Hollywood film from Black Hawk Down (2001), through Batman Begins (2005), United 93 (2006) to Olympus Has Fallen (2013). Through a vibrant analysis of a range of genres and films - which in turn reveal a strikingly diverse array of social, historical and political perspectives - this book explores the impact of 9/11 and the war on terror on American cinema in the first decade of the new millennium and beyond.

Author : J. Hoberman
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781595587275

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An Army of Phantoms by J. Hoberman Pdf

The film critic’s sweeping analysis of American cinema in the Cold War era is both “utterly compulsive reading [and] majestic” in its “breadth and rigor” (Film Comment). An Army of Phantoms is a major work of film history and cultural criticism by leading film critic J. Hoberman. Tracing the dynamic interplay between politics and popular culture, Hoberman offers “the most detailed year-by-year look at Hollywood during the first decade of the Cold War ever published, one that takes film analysis beyond the screen and sets it in its larger political context” (Los Angeles Review of Books). By “tell[ing] the story not just of what’s on the screen but of what played out behind it,” Hoberman demonstrates how the nation’s deep-seated fears and wishes were projected onto the big screen. In this far-reaching work of historical synthesis, Cecil B. DeMille rubs shoulders with Douglas MacArthur, atomic tests are shown on live TV, God talks on the radio, and Joe McCarthy is bracketed with Marilyn Monroe (The American Scholar). From cavalry Westerns to apocalyptic sci-fi flicks, and biblical spectaculars; from movies to media events, congressional hearings and political campaigns, An Army of Phantoms “remind[s] you what criticism is supposed to be: revelatory, reflective and as rapturous as the artwork itself” (Time Out New York). “An epic . . . alternately fevered and measured account of what might be called the primal scene of American cinema.” —Cineaste “There’s something majestic about the reach of Hoberman’s ambitions, the breadth and rigor of his research, and especially the curatorial vision brought to historical data.” —Film Comment