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9780230002579

Repicturing the Second World War Representations in Film and Television

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    9780230002579

  • ISBN10:

    0230002579

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-12-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

The fiftieth anniversaries of the Second World War that began in 1989 saw an unprecedented re-awakening of interest in the conflict, and nowhere was this more evident than in the outpouring of new films and television dramas which re-examined almost every aspect of that war. Written by acknowledged experts in the field, Repicturing the Second World War is the first systematic attempt to analyse how the recent productions have extended our understanding, and re-shaped our memory, of the most cataclysmic event of the twentieth century. Written by acknowledged international experts in the field, the chapters range widely over the experience of war in Europe and America from the homefront to the battlefront. Included are new analyses of such powerful and controversial films as Downfall, Life is Beautiful, Enemy at the Gates and Tea with Mussolini. Book jacket.

Author Biography

MICHAEL PARIS is Professor of Modern History, University of Central Lancashire, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and his books include The First World War and Popular Cinema, Warrior Nation: Images of War in British Popular Culture and Over The Top: The First World War and Juvenile Literature in Britain.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsp. vii
Notes on Contributorsp. viii
Introduction: Film, Television, and the Second World War - The First Fifty Yearsp. 1
'Rose-tinted Blighty': Gender and Genre in Land Girlsp. 12
Policing the People's War: Foyle's War and British Television Dramap. 26
An Autobiographical Allegory: Franco Zeffirelli's Tea With Mussolinip. 39
Soccer with the Dead: Mediterraneo, the Legacy of Neorealismo, and the Myth of Italiani Brava Gentep. 55
Safe Conduct: A Tribute to The French Film Industry During the Second World Warp. 70
Aimee, Jaguar and Sophie Scholl: Women on the German Home Frontp. 83
'This Film is based on a True Story': The Tuskegee Airmenp. 94
'What Happened was Wrong': Come See the Paradise and the Japanese-American Experience in the Second World Warp. 105
Commissioning Mass Murder: Conspiracy and History at the Wannsee Conferencep. 119
Laughing Against Horror: Life is Beautiful and Train of Lifep. 134
Enemy at the Gates as a 'Soviet' War Filmp. 148
Bomber Harris: Raking Through the Ashes of the Strategic Air Campaign Against Germanyp. 162
Realism, Historical Truth and the War Film: The Case of Saving Private Ryanp. 177
Downfall and Other Endings: German Film and Hitler's War after Sixty Yearsp. 192
Notes and Referencesp. 205
Indexp. 232
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