
World War II on Film
David Luhrssen(Author)
ABC-CLIO (Publisher)
Published on 9. November 2020
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-1-4408-7158-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
517 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4408-7158-0 (9781440871580)
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Person
David Luhrssen, MA, is film critic for the Shepherd Express, Milwaukee's weekly newspaper, and cofounder of the Milwaukee International Film Festival.
Content
Series Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chronology
1. Saboteur (1942)
2. Casablanca (1942)
3. Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
4. From Here to Eternity (1953)
5. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
6. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
7. Patton (1970)
8. Das Boot (1981)
9. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
10. Enemy at the Gates (2001)
11. Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
12. Dunkirk (2017)
Bibliography
Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chronology
1. Saboteur (1942)
2. Casablanca (1942)
3. Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
4. From Here to Eternity (1953)
5. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
6. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
7. Patton (1970)
8. Das Boot (1981)
9. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
10. Enemy at the Gates (2001)
11. Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
12. Dunkirk (2017)
Bibliography
Index