LEADER 03143nam 2200505 450 001 9910795158803321 005 20240110012124.0 010 $a1-4773-2505-0 024 7 $a10.7560/318911 035 $a(CKB)4900000001456848 035 $aEBL6940958 035 $a(OCoLC)1309041165 035 $a(AU-PeEL)EBL6940958 035 $a(DE-B1597)625668 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781477325056 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6940958 035 $a(EXLCZ)994900000001456848 100 $a20240110d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMaking the Best Years of Our Lives $eThe Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation /$fAlison Macor 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aAustin, Texas :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d[2022] 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource (206 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4773-1891-7 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Warstruck -- 2. Every Veteran a Potential Mental Case -- 3. The Way Home -- 4. Underwater Again -- 5. Fade on Kiss -- 6. Pure Emotional Dynamite -- 7. It's All the Same Fight -- 8. A Training Film for All of Us -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index 330 $aReleased in 1946, The Best Years of Our Lives became an immediate success. Life magazine called it ?the first big, good movie of the post-war era? to tackle the ?veterans problem.? Today we call that problem PTSD, but in the initial aftermath of World War II, the modern language of war trauma did not exist. The film earned the producer Samuel Goldwyn his only Best Picture Academy Award. It offered the injured director, William Wyler, a triumphant postwar return to Hollywood. And for Harold Russell, a double amputee who costarred with Fredric March and Dana Andrews, the film provided a surprising second act. Award-winning author Alison Macor illuminates the film?s journey from script to screen and describes how this authentic motion picture moved audiences worldwide. General Omar Bradley believed The Best Years of Our Lives would help ?the American people to build an even better democracy? following the war, and the movie inspired broad reflection on reintegrating the walking wounded. But the film?s nuanced critique of American ideals also made it a target, and the picture and its creators were swept up in the anti-Communist witch hunts of the late 1940s. In this authoritative history, Macor chronicles the making and meaning of a film that changed America. 606 $aPost-traumatic stress disorder in motion pictures 606 $aVeterans in motion pictures 615 0$aPost-traumatic stress disorder in motion pictures. 615 0$aVeterans in motion pictures. 676 $a791.4372 700 $aMacor$b Alison$f1966-$01467544 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795158803321 996 $aMaking the Best Years of Our Lives$93678224 997 $aUNINA