Title: The censored war : American visual experience during World War Two /
Authors: Roeder, George H.
Publisher: Yale University Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 Pictorial works.; World War, 1939-1945 Propaganda.; Propaganda, American History; World War, 1939-1945 Censorship United States.
Abstract: "Early in World War II censors placed all photographs of dead and badly wounded Americans in a secret Pentagon file known to officials as the Chamber of Horrors. Later, as government leaders became concerned about public complacency brought on by Allied victories, they released some of these photographs of war's brutality. But to the war's end and after, they continued to censor photographs of mutilated or emotionally distressed American soldiers, of racial conflicts at American bases, and other visual evidence of disunity or disorder. In this book George H. Roeder, Jr., tells the intriguing story of how American opinions about World War II were manipulated both by the wartime images that citizens were allowed to see and by the images that were suppressed. His text is amplified by arresting visual essays that include many previously unpublished photographs from the army's censored files.
Contents: Ch. 1. Rationing Death -- Visual Essay 1: Playing the Death Card -- Ch. 2. A Cast of Millions -- Visual Essay 2: Moving Pictures -- Ch. 3. War as a Way of Seeing -- Visual Essay 3: War as Monologue -- Ch. 4. War Costs -- Visual Essay 4: War Legacies.