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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: McLaughlin, Robert L., 1957- We'll always have the movies. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2006 (OCoLC)607774855 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert L McLaughlin; Sally E Parry |
ISBN: | 0813123860 9780813123868 9780813130057 0813130050 0813123879 9780813123875 |
OCLC Number: | 61864380 |
Description: | ix, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Before Pearl Harbor -- The war in the Pacific -- Our enemies -- Our fighting allies -- Our occupied allies -- American men and women -- Home-front anxieties -- Postwar films in the postwar world. |
Other Titles: | We will always have the movies |
Responsibility: | Robert L. McLaughlin, Sally E. Parry. |
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Abstract:
Explains how film after film repeated the narratives, character types, and rhetoric that made the World War II and each American's role in it comprehensible. This study shows how filmmakers made the chaotic elements of wartime familiar, while actual events became film history, and film history became myth.
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A unique and exhaustive analysis of many home front films of different genres that have been ignored for decades but are significant in their effects on the wartime American moviegoing public. - Ralph R. Donald, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Read more...
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