Hollywood enlists!
Subtitle: propaganda films of World War II
By: Ralph Donald
Series: Film and history; Film and history (Lanham, Md.)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781442277267
Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion pictures and the war; World War, 1939-1945; War films; History and criticism; Motion pictures in propaganda; History
Description: This book explores how the Hollywood studios used sophisticated strategies of propaganda to ideologically unite the country during World War II. Through such films as Sergeant York, Casablanca, They Were Expendable, Mrs. Miniver, and others, the studios appealed to the public's sense of nationalism, demonized the enemy, and stressed that wartime sacrifices would result in triumph. --Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes annotated filmography: pages 193-227.
Table of contents: title: Hollywood and Washington; title: Who started it? the guilt appeal; title: Defining the bad guys: the satanism appeal; title: We will win! the illusion of victory appeal; title: God is on our side! apocalyptic / Biblical appeals; title: Defending our homes: the territorial appeal; title: Conclusion.