Projections of War by Thomas Doherty

Projections of War by Thomas Doherty

In this lively cultural history, Doherty demonstrates that wartime Hollywood was not a rigidly controlled propaganda machine, as is often assumed, but an ad-hoc collaborative effort between the government and film industry.

A wide-ranging, lively study which combines close readings of various key films with discussions of genre, ethnicity, and beauracracy.. [A] vivid blend of polemic and social history. Times Literary Supplement This is a model social history of war movies-both a penetrating examination of Hollywood at war and a bracing argument about the effects of the war on the nature of Hollywood entertainment. Kirkus Reviews

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.

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ISBN 13	9780231116350
ISBN 10	0231116357
Title	Projections of War
Author	Thomas Doherty
Series	Film And Culture Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Columbia University Press
Year published	1999-09-02
Number of pages	381
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