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Book Destination Tokyo

Download or read book Destination Tokyo written by George Bilainkin and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The War Film

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  • Author : Robert T. Eberwein
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780813534978
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book The War Film written by Robert T. Eberwein and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War has had a powerful impact on the film industry, while at the same time motion pictures can influence wartime behaviour & shape our perception of the historical record. This book collects essays that use a variety of critical approaches to explore this film genre.

Book LIFE

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1944-01-24
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1944-01-24 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Book Destination  Tokyo

Download or read book Destination Tokyo written by Stan Cohen and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hollywood s War with Poland  1939   1945

Download or read book Hollywood s War with Poland 1939 1945 written by M.B.B. Biskupski and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This passionate, carefully researched, richly detailed, well-written study” reveals the political motives behind WWII Hollywood’s portrayal of Poles (Choice). During World War II, Hollywood studios supported the war effort by making patriotic movies designed to raise the nation's morale. Often the characterizations were as black and white as the movies themselves: Americans and their allies were heroes, while everyone else was a villain. The peoples of Norway, France, Czechoslovakia, and England were all good because they had been invaded or victimized by Nazi Germany. Yet Poland—the first country to be invaded by the Third Reich—was repeatedly represented in a negative light. In this prize-winning study, Polish historian M. B. B. Biskupski explores why. Biskupski presents a close critical study of prewar and wartime films such as To Be or Not to Be, In Our Time, and None Shall Escape. Through memoirs, letters, diaries, and memoranda written by screenwriters, directors, studio heads, and actors, Biskupski examines how the political climate, and especially pro-Soviet sentiment, influenced Hollywood films of the time. Winner of the Oscar Halecki Prize A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Book Liberty

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1944
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 986 pages

Download or read book Liberty written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Destination Tokyo

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  • Author : Steve Fisher
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1943
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Destination Tokyo written by Steve Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Destination Tokyo

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  • Author : George Bilainkin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Destination Tokyo written by George Bilainkin and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book LIFE

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  • Release : 1944-01-31
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1944-01-31 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Book LIFE

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  • Release : 1944-11-13
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1944-11-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Book The Exhibitor

Download or read book The Exhibitor written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some issues include separately paged sections: Better management, Physical theatre, extra profits; Review; Servisection.

Book The Ship that Held the Line

Download or read book The Ship that Held the Line written by Lisle A Rose and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American fleet aircraft carrier Hornet is widely acknowledged for the contributions she made to the war effort. The Doolittle Raid, launched from the Hornet's deck, inaugurated America's Pacific counteroffensive and transformed the aircraft carrier into one of the world's prime strategic weapon systems. She was one of three carriers to participate in the victory at Midway and the fighting around Guadalcanal. Through the experiences of this key warship and the eyes of her crew and the aviators who flew from her deck, Lisle Rose recreates the first desperate year of the war in the Pacific. He tells how the Hornet was molded into a deadly weapon of war, how the ship was fought and ultimately lost, and what it was like to live aboard her at a time when the fate of the United States depended on the Navy's tiny carrier fleet. In chronicling the carrier's operational history, the author contends that the fate of the Hornet's air group at Midway remains one of the great controversies in modern naval history and that the ship's importance in helping to keep the Japanese juggernaut at bay during the most critical period of the Pacific war is incontestable. His arguments ring true today as the controversy continues. Rose succeeds both in letting the reader see things the way the men of the Hornet did and in placing their experiences in a broad historical context.

Book Destructive Sublime

Download or read book Destructive Sublime written by Tanine Allison and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American popular imagination has long portrayed World War II as the “good war,” fought by the “greatest generation” for the sake of freedom and democracy. Yet, combat films and other war media complicate this conventional view by indulging in explosive displays of spectacular violence. Combat sequences, Tanine Allison argues, construct a counter-narrative of World War II by reminding viewers of the war’s harsh brutality. Destructive Sublime traces a new aesthetic history of the World War II combat genre by looking back at it through the lens of contemporary video games like Call of Duty. Allison locates some of video games’ glorification of violence, disruptive audiovisual style, and bodily sensation in even the most canonical and seemingly conservative films of the genre. In a series of case studies spanning more than seventy years—from wartime documentaries like The Battle of San Pietro to fictional reenactments like The Longest Day and Saving Private Ryan to combat video games like Medal of Honor—this book reveals how the genre’s aesthetic forms reflect (and influence) how American culture conceives of war, nation, and representation itself.

Book The Hollywood War Film

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  • Author : Robert Eberwein
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2009-08-25
  • ISBN : 1444315072
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book The Hollywood War Film written by Robert Eberwein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hollywood War Film offers readers a lively introduction to the theory, history, stars, and major films constituting this vital genre, from Hollywood's earliest days to the current moment Combines broad historical and theoretical coverage of the genre with in-depth analysis of specific films Includes chapters on All Quiet on the Western Front, World War II combat films, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, Eastwood’s Iwo Jima films, and Iraq war films An ideal text for perennially popular courses on the war film genre

Book Guts and Glory

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  • Author : Lawrence H. Suid
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2015-01-13
  • ISBN : 0813158087
  • Pages : 770 pages

Download or read book Guts and Glory written by Lawrence H. Suid and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guts and Glory: The Making of the American Military Image in Film is the definitive study of the symbiotic relationship between the film industry and the United States armed services. Since the first edition was published nearly two decades ago, the nation has experienced several wars, both on the battlefield and in movie theatres and living rooms at home. Now, author Lawrence Suid has extensively revised and expanded his classic history of the mutual exploitation of the film industry and the military, exploring how Hollywood has reflected and effected changes in America's image of its armed services. He offers in-depth looks at such classic films as Wings, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, The Longest Day, Patton, Top Gun, An Officer and a Gentleman, and Saving Private Ryan, as well as the controversial war movies The Green Berets, M*A*S*H, the Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and Born on the Fourth of July.

Book At Grandma s House

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  • Author : H. Byron Earhart
  • Publisher : SIU Press
  • Release : 2020-08-21
  • ISBN : 0809370077
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book At Grandma s House written by H. Byron Earhart and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illinois State Historical Society Certificate of Excellence Winner, 2021 When H. Byron Earhart’s father enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1942, young Byron and his family moved into his grandparents' old-fashioned home with a coal-fired range and potbelly stove, and his mother took charge of the family business, a frozen food locker. Grandma was the undisputed head of the family. While his father served on the battleship USS Missouri, his grandparents and mother held the family and the business together. At Grandma’s House is a tribute to everyday Americans who provided the social glue for a country at war as they balanced fear and anxiety for loved ones with the challenges and pleasures of daily life. The experiences of the Earhart family and this Midwestern community, supplemented by contemporary documents, family photos, and professional illustrations, recount with vivid local color the drama that played out on the national and international stage.

Book World War II at the Movies

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  • Author : Virginia Lyman Lucas
  • Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
  • Release : 2018-11-12
  • ISBN : 1643503189
  • Pages : 122 pages

Download or read book World War II at the Movies written by Virginia Lyman Lucas and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tribute to all men and women who serve their country and in particular those who sacrificed bringing about victory over tyranny in WWII, World War II at the Movies contains forty-eight movie commentaries depicting WWII major events, both in Europe and the South Pacific. In addition to reading about WWII major events in chronological order, you'll find out: What major movie star who made more than thirty-five Hollywood Westerns was the most decorated soldier of World War II in To Hell and Back What famous film star from the '30s and '40s who stars in Command Decision was himself a fighter pilot who flew five combat missions, including one to Germany, as an observer gunner in B-17 Flying Fortresses and left the Army Air Forces with rank of major What former US senator was a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, made up of Japanese Americans who fought for their country even while battling prejudice as told in Go for Broke! What ethnic group developed an uncrackable military code based on their language and took part in every assault the US Marines conducted in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945, including Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu, and Iwo Jima