Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939-1945 [electronic resource] /
Biskupski, M. B. B.
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky,
c2010.
During World War II, Hollywood studios supported the war effort by making patriotic movies designed to raise the nation's morale. They often portrayed the combatants in very simple terms: Americans and their allies were heroes, and everyone else was a villain. Norway, France, Czechoslovakia, and England were all good because they had been invaded or victimized by Nazi Germany. Poland, however, was represented in a negative light in numerous movies. In Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939-1945, M. B. B. Biskupski draws on a close study of prewar and wartime films such as To Be or Not to Be (194
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During World War II, Hollywood studios supported the war effort by making patriotic movies designed to raise the nation's morale. They often portrayed the combatants in very simple terms: Americans and their allies were heroes, and everyone else was a villain. Norway, France, Czechoslovakia, and England were all good because they had been invaded or victimized by Nazi Germany. Poland, however, was represented in a negative light in numerous movies. In Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939-1945, M. B. B. Biskupski draws on a close study of prewar and wartime films such as To Be or Not to Be (194
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Polish presence in American cinema before 1939 -- Poland in the Second World War -- Radical Hollywood and Poland -- The Roosevelt administration and film during the war -- Hollywood's version of the war : the Polish films -- Poland : fleeting, ambiguous, or omitted -- Hollywood and the American Poles during the war -- Why Hollywood was at war with the Poles.
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Motion pictures
World War, 1939-1945
Polish people in motion pictures.