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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816498203321

Autore

Jeansonne Glen

Titolo

War on the silver screen : shaping America's perception of history / / Glen Jeansonne, David Luhrssen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Lincoln] : , : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, , [2014]

2014

ISBN

1-61234-642-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/6581

Soggetti

War films - United States - History and criticism

History in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. World War I (1914-1918)""; ""All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)""; ""Paths of Glory (1957)""; ""Lawrence of Arabia (1962)""; ""Gallipoli (1981)""; ""2. World War II (1939-1945)""; ""Casablanca (1942)""; ""Saboteur (1942) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)""; ""Twelve O'Clock High (1949)""; ""Patton (1970)""; ""Schindler's List (1993)""; ""Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)""; ""3. The Cold War (1947-1991), including the Korean War (1950-1953) and the Vietnam War (1955-1975)""

""The Manchurian Candidate (1962)""""From Russia with Love (1963)""; ""Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) and Fail-Safe (1964)""; ""Apocalypse Now (1979)""; ""Charlie Wilson's War (2007)""; ""4. The War on Terror (2001-)""; ""United 93 (2006)""; ""The Hurt Locker (2008) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012)""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""

Sommario/riassunto

Americans have been almost constantly at war since 1917. In addition to two world wars, the United States has fought proxy wars, propaganda wars, and a ""war on terror,"" among others. But even with the constant presence of war in American life, much of what Americans remember about those conflicts comes from Hollywood depictions.   In War on the Silver Screen Glen Jeansonne and David Luhrssen vividly



demonstrate how war movies have burned the images and impressions of those wars onto the American psyche more concretely than has the reality of the wars themselves. That is, our feelings about