Physical Description
x, 235 p. ; 23 cm.
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.
Other Authors/Editors
Paris, Michael, 1949-
ISBN
9780230002579
0230002579 (hbk.)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-231) and index.
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.
