Repicturing the Second World War : representations in film and television /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Paris, Michael, 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : film, television, and the Second World War : the first fifty years / Michael Paris
  • "Rose-tinted Blighty" : gender and genre in Land girls / Wendy Webster
  • Policing the people's war : Foyle's war and British television drama / James Chapman
  • An autobiographical allegory : Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini / Robert W. Matson
  • Soccer with the dead : Mediterraneo, the legacy of neorealismo, and the myth of italiani brava gente / Saverio Giovacchini
  • Safe conduct : a tribute to the French film industry during the Second World War / Diane Afoumado
  • Aimée, Jaguar, and Sophie Scholl : women on the German home front / Helen Jones
  • "This film is based on a true story" : the Tuskegee Airmen / S.P. Mackenzie
  • "What happened was wrong" : Come see the paradise and the Japanese-American experience in the Second World War / Michael Paris
  • Commissioning mass murder : Conspiracy and history at the Wannsee Conference / Simone Gigliotti
  • Laughing against horror : Life is beautiful and Train of life / Pierre Sorlin
  • Enemy at the gates as a "Soviet" war film / Denise J. Youngblood
  • Bomber Harris : raking through the ashes of the strategic air campaign against Germany / Mark Connelly
  • Realism, historical truth, and the war film : the case of Saving Private Ryan / Toby Haggith
  • Downfall and other endings : German film and Hitler's war after sixty years / Tony Barta.