We'll Always Have the Movies [electronic resource] : American Cinema during World War II /
McLaughlin, Robert L.,1957-
Parry, Sally E.
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky,
c2006.
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.
Electronic reproduction
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-319) and index.
Filmography: p. 321-336.
Description based on print version record.
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945