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  • World War II Film and History

    by John Whiteclay Chambers;David Culbert ...
    The immediacy and perceived truth of the visual image as well as film and television's ability to propel viewers back into the past place the genre of the historical film in a special category. War films--including antiwar films--have established the prevailing public image of war in the twentieth century. For American audiences the dominant image of trench warfare in World War I has been provided ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • World War II, Film, and History

    by David Culbert, John Whiteclay Chambers, II ...
    The immediacy and perceived truth of the visual image, as well as film and television's ability to propel viewers back into the past, place the genre of the historical film in a special category. War films--including antiwar films--have established the prevailing public image of war in the twentieth century. For American audiences, the dominant image of trench warfare in World War I has been ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    One of the great American iconoclasts holds forth on politics, war, books and writers, and his personal life in a series of conversations—including his last published interview.During his long career Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays, and essays. In this new anthology of conversations with Vonnegut—which collects interviews from throughout his career—we learn much about ... Read more

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  • The Silence on the Shore

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  • The Collaboration

    Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler

    by Ben Urwand ...
    To continue doing business in Germany, Hollywood studios agreed not to make films attacking Nazis or condemning persecution of Jews. Ben Urwand reveals this collaboration and the cast of characters it drew in, ranging from Goebbels to Louis B. Mayer. At the center was Hitler himself--obsessed with movies and their power to shape public opinion. ... Read more

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  • Spinning History

    Politics and Propaganda in World War II

    by Nathaniel Lande ...
    In this fascinating new book, bestselling author and historian Nathaniel Lande explores the Great War at the heart of the twentieth century through the prism of theater. He presents the war as a drama that evolved and developed as it progressed, a production staged and overseen by four contrasting masters: Roosevelt, Churchill, Hitler, and Stalin.Each leader used all the tools at his disposal to ... Read more

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  • Fracture

    Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938

    by Philipp Blom ...
    When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism, and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. Shell shocked and traumatized, the West faced a world it no longer recognized: the old order had collapsed, replaced by an age of machines. The world hurtled forward on gears and crankshafts, and ... Read more

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  • The Democratic Surround

    Multimedia & American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

    by Fred Turner ...
    A "smart and fascinating" reassessment of postwar American culture and the politics of the 1960s from the author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture ( Reason Magazine).We tend to think of the sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in The ... Read more

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  • The Anti-Communist Manifestos

    Four Books That Shaped the Cold War

    by John V. Fleming ...
    The books altered the course of history; the lives behind them have the dark fascination of fiction.The subject of The Anti-Communist Manifestos is four influential books that informed the great political struggle known as the Cold War: Darkness at Noon (1940), by Arthur Koestler, a Hungarian journalist and polymath intellectual; Out of the Night (1941), by Jan Valtin, a German sailor and labor ... Read more

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  • Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939–1945

    by M.B.B. Biskupski ...
    "This passionate, carefully researched, richly detailed, well-written study" reveals the political motives behind WWII Hollywood's portrayal of Poles ( Choice).During World War II, Hollywood studios supported the war effort by making patriotic movies designed to raise the nation's morale. Often the characterizations were as black and white as the movies themselves: Americans and their allies were ... Read more

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  • History and Film

    Moving Pictures and the Study of the Past

    by Maarten Pereboom ...
    The ability to view recorded moving pictures has had a major impact on human culture since the development of the necessary technologies over a century ago. For most of this time people have gone to the movies to be entertained and perhaps edified, but in the meantime television, the videocassette recorder (VCR), the digital versatile disk (DVD) player, the personal computer (desktop and laptop), ... Read more

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  • Historical Dictionary of Holocaust Cinema

    by Robert C. Reimer, Carol J. Reimer ...
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    Some say that telling the story of the Holocaust is impossible, yet, artists have told the story thousands of time since the end of World War II in novels, dramas, paintings, music, sculpture, and film. Over the past seven decades, hundreds of documentaries, narrative shorts and features, and television miniseries have confronted the horrors of the past, creating an easily recognized iconography ... Read more

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