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Wartime kiss : visions of the moment in the 1940s / / Alexander Nemerov



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Autore: Nemerov Alexander Visualizza persona
Titolo: Wartime kiss : visions of the moment in the 1940s / / Alexander Nemerov Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2013
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (184 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 940.53/73
Soggetto topico: World War, 1939-1945 - Photography
Historiography and photography
World War, 1939-1945 - Motion pictures and the war
Art and history
Collective memory
Nineteen forties
Soggetto non controllato: Aircraft
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Andrew Marvell
Anecdote
Ann Carter
Anne Frank
Archibald MacLeish
Arsenic and Old Lace (play)
Bertolt Brecht
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
Bomb bay
Bomb
Bosley Crowther
Cary Grant
Combat Mission
Command Decision (play)
Confetti
Consolidated B-24 Liberator
Darryl F. Zanuck
Dick Powell
Donna Reed
Down on His Luck
Dr. Strangelove
Eddie Muller
Eloquence
Enola Gay
Erskine Caldwell
Fan magazine
Footage
G. (novel)
Geoffrey de Havilland
Getty Images
Government Girl
Graflex
Gregory Peck
Henry Fonda
Hold Back the Dawn
Howard Hawks
Howard Hughes
I Wanted Wings
In the Woods
Instant
Intercom
Jack Warner (actor)
James Agee
Jennifer Jones
Joan Fontaine
John Hersey
John Steinbeck
John Swope (photographer)
Joseph Cornell
Lady, Be Good (musical)
Lightness
Linhof
Los Angeles Times
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Herrick Library
Marx Brothers
Max Reinhardt
Meal
Memphis Belle (aircraft)
Michelangelo Antonioni
Mickey Rooney
Mr
Nickname
North Africa
Olivia de Havilland
Patchwork
Paulette Goddard
Phonograph
Photography
Potion
Princess O'Rourke
Princeton University Press
Priscilla Lane
Report from the Aleutians
Roland Barthes
Rosie the Riveter
Seminar
Stanley Kubrick
Stardom
Swoon (artist)
Sy Bartlett
Tamara Toumanova
The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series)
The Circus Animals' Desertion
The Curse of the Cat People
The Dark Corner
The New York Times
To His Coy Mistress
Toby Jug
Tom Conway
Toner
Top Gun
Twelve O'Clock High
Veronica Lake
William Wyler
Wing and a Prayer
Wings of the Navy
Writing
Classificazione: ART015020PHO010000HIS037070ART015000
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- One. Kissing in August 1945 / Jepson-Turner, Belita -- Two. Sleeping Beauty / Havilland, Olivia de -- Three. When the World Smiled / Bourke-White, Margaret -- Four. Sentimental Mysticism / Archbury, Stovall at -- Five. Hold Back the Dawn / Havilland, Olivia de -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliographic Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: "Wartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World War II and the later 1940s. Starting with a powerful reinterpretation of one of the most famous photos of all time, Alfred Eisenstaedt's image of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day, Alexander Nemerov goes on to examine an idiosyncratic collection of mostly obscure or unknown images and movie episodes--from a photo of Jimmy Stewart and Olivia de Havilland lying on a picnic blanket in the Santa Barbara hills to scenes from such films as Twelve O'Clock High and Hold Back the Dawn. Erotically charged and bearing traces of trauma even when they seem far removed from the war, these photos and scenes seem to hold out the promise of a palpable and emotional connection to those years. Through a series of fascinating stories, Nemerov reveals the surprising background of these bits of film and discovers unexpected connections between the war and Hollywood, from an obsession with aviation to Anne Frank's love of the movies. Beautifully written and illustrated, Wartime Kiss vividly evokes a world in which Margaret Bourke-White could follow a heroic assignment photographing a B-17 bombing mission over Tunis with a job in Hollywood documenting the filming of a war movie. Ultimately this is a book about history as a sensuous experience, a work as mysterious, indescribable, and affecting as a novel by W. G. Sebald"--
Titolo autorizzato: Wartime kiss  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-80431-X
1-4008-4488-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910827691603321
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Serie: Essays in the Arts