Projections of War

Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II

By:

Thomas Doherty

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Film and Culture Series

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In this cultural history of the USA during World War II, Thomas Doherty examines the interaction between Hollywood cinema and America's involvement in the war. He reveals how and why Hollywood marshalled its artistic resources on behalf of the war effort, giving a voice to many different groups' viewpoints: the motion picture industry itself; government agencies; and audiences at home and overseas. Doherty proves that wartime Hollywood was not a rigidly controlled propaganda machine, as is often assumed, but an ad-hoc collaborative effort between the government and the film industry. He explains the social, political and economic forces that created genre classics such as "Mrs Miniver" and "Air Force" as well as comedies, musicals, newsreels, documentaries, cartoons and army training films.

Author Biography:

Thomas Doherty is associate professor of the American Studies Department and chair of the Film Studies Program at Brandeis University. He is author of Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934 (Columbia, 1999) and Teenagers and Teenpics: The Juvenilizatzion of American Movies in the 1950s, and is associate editor of the film journal Cineaste.

Release date NZ

September 2nd, 1999

Author

Thomas Doherty

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

Revised and Updated Edition

Pages

381

Series

Film and Culture Series

Dimensions

221x165x22

ISBN-13

9780231116350

Product ID

3810147

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