Repicturing the Second World War : representations in film and television / edited by Michael Paris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Paris, Michael, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war.

World War, 1939-1945.

War and motion pictures.

World War, 1939-1945--Television and the war.

War and television.

Physical Description:

x, 235 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-231) and index.

ISBN:

9780230002579

0230002579

OCLC:

148905629