Repicturing the Second World War

Representations in Film and Television

By: Michael Paris (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 December 2007 | Edition Number 1

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Films and television dramas about the Second World War have always been popular. Written by acknowledged experts in the field, this collection offers challenging, sometimes controversial, insights into how the popular memory of the Second World War has been 're-pictured' since 1989, which marked the sixtieth anniversary of the start of the war.

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Acknowledgements	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. viii
Introduction: Film, Television, and the Second World War - The First Fifty Years	p. 1
'Rose-tinted Blighty': Gender and Genre in Land Girls	p. 12
Policing the People's War: Foyle's War and British Television Drama	p. 26
An Autobiographical Allegory: Franco Zeffirelli's Tea With Mussolini	p. 39
Soccer with the Dead: Mediterraneo, the Legacy of Neorealismo, and the Myth of Italiani Brava Gente	p. 55
Safe Conduct: A Tribute to The French Film Industry During the Second World War	p. 70
Aimee, Jaguar and Sophie Scholl: Women on the German Home Front	p. 83
'This Film is based on a True Story': The Tuskegee Airmen	p. 94
'What Happened was Wrong': Come See the Paradise and the Japanese-American Experience in the Second World War	p. 105
Commissioning Mass Murder: Conspiracy and History at the Wannsee Conference	p. 119
Laughing Against Horror: Life is Beautiful and Train of Life	p. 134
Enemy at the Gates as a 'Soviet' War Film	p. 148
Bomber Harris: Raking Through the Ashes of the Strategic Air Campaign Against Germany	p. 162
Realism, Historical Truth and the War Film: The Case of Saving Private Ryan	p. 177
Downfall and Other Endings: German Film and Hitler's War after Sixty Years	p. 192
Notes and References	p. 205
Index	p. 232
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Repicturing the Second World War

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