Film Style And The World War Ii Combat Genre

Author : Stuart Bender
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443865494
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film Style and the World War II Combat Genre written by Stuart Bender and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film Style and the World War II Combat Genre is a detailed examination of the stylistic means by which filmmakers depict stories of combat. The work furthers contemporary discussions by analyzing a range of World War II combat films to a degree of detail which has previously escaped critical attention. This substantial examination of cinematography, sound, editing and acting in a range of movies including Saving Private Ryan, Windtalkers, Bataan, and Objective Burma! demonstrates the importance of close attention to the textual construction of these films specifically, as well as cinematic texts more generally. The work advances the original analytic descriptions of “controlled spontaneity” and “reported realism” as theoretical concepts which explain why viewers regard certain stylistic techniques as realistic. This notion of realism is then further understood through reference to a body of research in cognitive psychology to argue that the density of audio-visual information in contemporary combat films is a significant factor in creating a sense of realism.

Author : Jeanine Basinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780317384468
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World War II Combat Film written by Jeanine Basinger and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeanine Basinger
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819566232
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World War II Combat Film written by Jeanine Basinger and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively, comprehensive analysis of World War II movies.

Author : Tanine Allison
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813597528
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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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 261 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.

Author : John Whiteclay Chambers II Professor of History Rutgers University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199728739
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World War II, Film, and History written by John Whiteclay Chambers II Professor of History Rutgers University and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996-09-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sheri Chinen Biesen
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801882180
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blackout written by Sheri Chinen Biesen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-11-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheri Chinen Biesen challenges conventional thinking on the origins of film noir and finds the genre's roots in the political, social and historical conditions of Hollywood during the Second World War.

Author : Robert Fyne
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810833104
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hollywood Propaganda of World War II written by Robert Fyne and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, over 300 Hollywood motion pictures were produced that, in one way or another, bore the propaganda imprimatur. These popular movies -- and they consistently glorified the achievements of the American fighting man while vilifying all the members of the Axis pact -- and fostered morale on the Home Front and stood as tangible reminders that Old Glory, mom, apple pie, and the St. Louis Browns would emerge victorious from this global conflict. But how successful was Hollywood's effort? Citing numerous examples of flag-waving dialogue, Professor Fyne has produced an in-depth study that examines these WWII movies, analyzing many motifs, stereotypes, fiction-as-fact, distortions, and prevarications that permeate this genre. His book lists the ten best titles of the war and discusses such topics as the World War I influence, the different approaches toward the Italian, German, and Japanese military machines, the glorification of the Soviet forces, the image of the Chinese nationals, the light-hearted B-comedies, musicals, and Westerns, plus the American GI's inner frustration with his fabricated photoplay image. For historians, film watchers, or social commentators, this book, complete with elaborate filmography, offers important information about Hollywood's role in shaping the Home Front mores.

Author : Stuart Marshall Bender
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319644599
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legacies of the Degraded Image in Violent Digital Media written by Stuart Marshall Bender and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book undertakes a concentrated study of the impact of degraded and low-quality imagery in contemporary cinema and real-world portrayals of violence. Through a series of case studies, the book explores examples of corrupted digital imagery that range from mainstream cinema portrayals of drone warfare and infantry killing, through to real-world recordings of terrorist attacks and executions, as well as perpetrator-created murder videos live-streamed on the internet. Despite post-modernist concerns of cultural inurement during the seminal period of digitalized and virtualized killing in the 1990s, real-world reactions to violent media indicate that our culture is anything but desensitized to these media depictions. Against such a background, this book is a concentrated study of how these images are created and circulated in the contemporary media landscape and how the effect and affect of violent material is impacted by the low-resolution aesthetic.

Author : Marianne Stecher-Hansen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789209625
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nordic War Stories written by Marianne Stecher-Hansen and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated on Europe’s northern periphery, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden found themselves caught between warring powers during World War II. Ultimately, these nations survived the conflict as sovereign states whose wartime experiences have profoundly shaped their historiography, literature, cinema and memory cultures. Nordic War Stories explores the commonalities and divergences among the five Nordic countries, examining national historiographies alongside representations of the war years in canonical literary works, travel writing, and film media. Together, they comprise a valuable companion that challenges the myth of Scandinavian homogeneity while demonstrating the powerful influence that the war continues to exert on national identities.

Author : Steven Jay Rubin
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786486139
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Combat Films written by Steven Jay Rubin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical text offers a behind-the-scenes look at fifteen of the most important American war films of the last 60 years. Based on original interviews and archival research and featuring rare photographs, this book covers films considered unusually realistic for the genre. The original edition (1981) covered war films through World War II, while the present, expanded edition includes seven new chapters covering the Civil War, the American gunboat presence in China in the 1920s, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the fighting in Mogadishu in 1993 and the war in Iraq.