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We'll always have the movies, American cinema during World War II, Robert L. McLaughlin, Sally E. Parry

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We'll always have the movies, American cinema during World War II, Robert L. McLaughlin, Sally E. Parry

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Filmography: pages 321-336Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-319) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

We'll always have the movies

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliographyfilmographies

Oclc number

70262487

Responsibility statement

Robert L. McLaughlin, Sally E. Parry

Sub title

American cinema during World War II

Summary

During the highly charged years of World War II, movies perhaps best communicated to Americans who they were and why they were fighting. These films were more than just an explanation of historical events: they asked audiences to consider the Nazi threat, they put a face on both our enemies and allies, and they explored changing wartime gender roles. We'll Always Have the Movies shows how film after film repeated the narratives, character types, and rhetoric that made the war and each American's role in it comprehensible. Robert L. McLaughlin and Sally E. Parry have watched more than six-hundr

Table Of Contents

Before Pearl Harbor -- The war in the Pacific -- Our enemies -- Our fighting allies -- Our occupied allies -- American men and women -- Home-front anxieties -- Postwar films in the postwar world

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We will always have the movies

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