We’ll Always Have the Movies

American cinema during World War II

Bibliographic Data

ID20031661
AuthorsRobert L McLaughlin (0000-0002-4734-4420), Sally E Parry (0000-0001-5867-206X)
Year2006
Pages357
Publication date2006-03-03
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueWe'll always have the movies (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity Press of Kentucky (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5810/kentucky/9780813123868.001.0001
OpenAlexW2799170462
ISBN9780813123868
Open LibraryOL22726639M
LanguageEN
Citations received5

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 the enemies and allies, and they explored changing wartime gender roles. This book shows how film after film repeated the narratives, character types, and rhetoric that made the war and each American's role in it comprehensible. To write this book the authors watched more than six-hundred films made between 1937 and 1946—including many never before discussed in this context—and have analyzed the cultural and historical importance of these films in explaining the war to moviegoers. This study shows how filmmakers made the chaotic elements of wartime familiar, while actual events became film history, and film history became myth

Aesthetics · Art · Character (mathematics) · Context (archaeology) · Face (sociological concept) · Film studies · German · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Movie theater · Mythology · Narrative · Nazism · Rhetoric · Social science · Sociology · World War II · Cinema and Media Studies · European history and politics · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Philosophy · 1939-1945 · Motion pictures and the war · united states · World War

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