Repicturing the Second World War : Representations in Film and Television by Michael Paris (2007, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan The Limited
ISBN-100230002579
ISBN-139780230002579
eBay Product ID (ePID)59087896
Product Key Features
Number of PagesX, 235 Pages
Publication NameRepicturing the Second World War : Representations in Film and Television
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
SubjectTelevision / History & Criticism, Sociology / General, Film / History & Criticism
TypeTextbook
AuthorMichael Paris
Subject AreaPerforming Arts, Social Science
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight15.5 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition22
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal791.43658
Table Of ContentAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Film, Television and the Second World War: The First Fifty Years; M.Paris 'Rose-tinted Blighty': Gender and Genre in Land Girls ; W.Webster Policing the People's War: Foyle's War and British Television Drama; J.Chapman An Autobiographical Allegory: Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini ; R.W.Matson Soccer with the Dead: Mediterraneo , the legacy of Neorealism and the Myth of the 'Italiani Brava Gente'; S.Giovacchini Safe Conduct (2002): A Tribute to the French Film Industry During the Second World War; D.Afoumado Aimee, Jaguar, and Sophie Scholl : Women on the German Home Front; H.Jones 'This Film is Based on a True Story': The Tuskegee Airmen ; S.P.Mackenzie 'What Happened Was Wrong': Come See the Paradise and the Japanese-American Experience in the Second World War; M.Paris Commissioning Mass Murder: Conspiracy and History at the Wannsee Conference; S.Gigliotti Laughing Against Horror: Life is Beautiful and Train of Life ; P.Sorlin Enemy at the Gates as a 'Soviet' War Film; D.J.Youngblood Bomber Harris : Raking Through the Ashes of the Strategic Air Campaign; M.Connelly Realism, Historical Truth and the War Film: The case of Saving Private Ryan ; T.Haggith Downfall and Other Endings: German Film and Hitler's War after Sixty Years; T.Barta Notes and References Index
SynopsisFilms and television dramas about the Second World War have always been popular. Written by acknowledged experts in the field, this collection offers challenging, sometimes controversial, insights into how the popular memory of the Second World War has been 're-pictured' since 1989, which marked the sixtieth anniversary of the start of the war.