Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies by Clayton R. Koppes
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Hollywood Goes to War
Summary
The drama, imagery and fantasy of 1940s films was enlisted to inspire the US war effort during World War II. This book looks at the propaganda, politics and persuasion that conspired to produce memorable movies such as "Casablanca", and the thankfully forgotten "Hillbilly Blitzkreig".
Hollywood Goes to War Summary
Table of Contents
Hollywood, 1939; Hollywood turns interventionist; will this picture help win the war?; OWI takes the offensive; shakeout in Hollywood; home front - defining America; putting the Russians through the wringer; democrats old and new - "classless" Britain and "modern" China; the beast in the jungle; Nazis, good Germans and GIs; Hollywood, 1945.
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GOR002937869
9781860646058
1860646050
Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies by Clayton R. Koppes
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2000-09-22
384
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