War on the silver screen : shaping America's perception of history /

Americans have been almost constantly at war since 1917. In addition to two world wars, the United States has fought proxy wars, propaganda wars, and a ""war on terror, "" among others. But even with the constant presence of war in American life, much of what Americans remember a...

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Những tác giả chính: Jeansonne, Glen, 1946- (Tác giả), Luhrssen, David (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: [Lincoln] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press [2014]
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1d9nn1r
Mục lục:
  • Introduction
  • World War I (1914-1918). All quiet on the Western front (1930)
  • Paths of glory (1957)
  • Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  • Gallipoli (1981)
  • World War II (1939-1945). Casablanca (1942)
  • Saboteur (1942) and The best years of our lives (1942)
  • Twelve o'clock high (1949)
  • Patton (1970)
  • Schindler's list (1993)
  • Flags of our fathers (2006) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
  • The Cold War (1947-1991), including the Korean War (1950-1953) and the Vietnam War (1955-1975). The Manchurian candidate (1962)
  • From Russia with love (1963)
  • Dr. Strangelove, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb (1964) and Fail-safe (1964)
  • Apocalypse now (1979)
  • Charlie Wilson's war (2007)
  • The war on terror (2001). United 93 (2006)
  • The hurt locker (2008) and Zero dark thirty (2012).