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Projections of War
Thomas Doherty
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Description for Projections of War
Paperback. In this lively cultural history, Doherty demonstrates that wartime Hollywood was not a rigidly controlled propaganda machine, as is often assumed, but an ad-hoc collaborative effort between the government and film industry. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 381 pages, Film stills. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; HBJK; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 552.
Thomas Doherty reveals how and why Hollywood marshaled its artistic resources on behalf of the war effort and interprets the cultural meanings and enduring legacies of the motion picture record of the war years. He explains the social, political, and economic forces that created such genre classics as Mrs. Miniver, as well as comedies, musicals, newsreels, documentaries, cartoons, and army training films. He examines the Hollywood Production Code, government propaganda films, the portrayal of women and minorities in films of the period, and Hollywood's role in World War I and Vietnam. This revised edition includes new sections exploring the ... Read more
Thomas Doherty reveals how and why Hollywood marshaled its artistic resources on behalf of the war effort and interprets the cultural meanings and enduring legacies of the motion picture record of the war years. He explains the social, political, and economic forces that created such genre classics as Mrs. Miniver, as well as comedies, musicals, newsreels, documentaries, cartoons, and army training films. He examines the Hollywood Production Code, government propaganda films, the portrayal of women and minorities in films of the period, and Hollywood's role in World War I and Vietnam. This revised edition includes new sections exploring the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
381
Condition
New
Series
Film and Culture Series
Number of Pages
381
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231116350
SKU
V9780231116350
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About Thomas Doherty
Thomas Doherty is associate professor of the American Studies Department and chair of the Film Studies Program at Brandeis University. He is author of Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934 (Columbia, 1999) and Teenagers and Teenpics: The Juvenilizatzion of American Movies in the 1950s, and is associate editor of the film journal Cineaste.
Reviews for Projections of War
A wide-ranging, lively study which combines close readings of various key films with discussions of genre, ethnicity, and beauracracy... [A] vivid blend of polemic and social history. Times Literary Supplement This is a model social history of war movies-both a penetrating examination of Hollywood at war and a bracing argument about the effects of the war on the nature of ... Read more