Research Catalog

Title

Why we fought : America's wars in film and history / edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor.

Publication

Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rollins, Peter C.
• O'Connor, John E.

Description

xiv, 604 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Film & history

Uniform Title

Film & history (Lexington, Ky.)

Subjects

• War films > History and criticism
• United States > History, Military

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [566]-574) and index.
• Includes filmography: p. [529]-565.

Contents

The American revolution on the screen: Drums along the Mohawk and The patriot / John E. O'Connor -- Reprinting the legend: the Alamo on film / Frank Thompson -- Assessing television's version of history: the Mexican-American war and the KERA documentary series / James Yates -- Ken Burns's rebirth of a nation: The civil war as made-for-television history / Gary R. Edgerton -- "It's what people say we're fighting for": representing the lost cause in Cold mountain / Robert M. Myers -- The great war viewed from the 1920s: The big parade / Michael T. Isenberg -- Technology and "reel patriotism" in American film advertising of the World War I era / James Latham -- Culture wars and the local screen: the reception of westfront 1918 and All quiet on the western front in one German city / David Imhoof -- The peace, isolationist, and anti-interventionist movements and interwar Hollywood / John Whiteclay Chambers II -- The B movie goes to war in Hitler, beast of Berlin / Cynthia J. Miller -- Why we fight and Projections of America: Frank Capra, Robert Riskin, and the making of World War II propaganda / Ian S. Scott -- On telling the truth about war: World War II and Hollywood's moral fiction, 1945-1956 / Frank J. Wetta, Martin A. Novelli -- James Jones, Columbia Pictures, and the historical confrontations of From here to eternity / J.E. Smyth -- Hollywood's D-Day from the perspective of the 1960s and 1990s: The longest day and Saving Private Ryan / Robert Brent Toplin -- Cold War Berlin in the movies: from The big lift to The promise / Thomas W. Maulucci Jr / Invaders of the Cold War: generic disruptions and shifting gender roles in The day the earth stood still / Susan A. George -- Using popular culture to study the Vietnam War: perils and possibilities / Peter C. Rollins -- Fragments of war: Oliver Stone's Platoon / Lawrence W. Lichty, Raymond L. Carroll -- The quiet American: Graham Greene's Vietnam novel through the lenses of two eras / William S. Bushnell -- Operation restore honor in Black hawk down / John Shelton Lawrence, John G. McGarrahan -- Documentary and the Iraq War: a new genre for new realities / Jeffrey Chown -- Jessica Lynch and the regeneration of American identity post 9/11 / Stacy Takacs -- Representing the unrepresentable: 9/11 on film and television / James Kendrick.

Call Number

IAG 08-7148

ISBN

• 9780813124933 (hbk.: alk. paper)
• 081312493X (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780813191911 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0813191912 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780813191928 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0813191920 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008006082

OCLC

181601268

Title

Why we fought : America's wars in film and history / edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor.

Imprint

Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2008.

Series

Film & history

Film & history (Lexington, Ky.)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [566]-574) and index.

Includes filmography: p. [529]-565.

Added Author

Rollins, Peter C.

O'Connor, John E.

Research Call Number

IAG 08-7148