Film Is Like a Battleground - Sam Fuller''s War Movies

Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller's War Movies is the first book to focus on the genre that best defined the American director's career: the war film. It draws on previously unexplored archival materials, such as Fuller's Federal Bureau of Investigation files and WWII-era amateur films, to explore the director's lifelong interest in making movies representing war and conflict.

About the author

Dr. Marsha Gordon is Associate Professor of Film Studies at North Carolina State University. She is the author of Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age, co-editor of Learning with the Lights Off: A Reader in Educational Film, and the former editor of The Moving Image journal.

Summary

Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller's War Movies is the first book to focus on the genre that best defined the American director's career: the war film. It draws on previously unexplored archival materials, such as Fuller's Federal Bureau of Investigation files and WWII-era amateur films, to explore the director's lifelong interest in making movies representing war and conflict.

Additional text

In the engaging Film Is Like a Battleground: Sam Fullers War Movies, Marsha Gordon explores how Fuller grappled with trauma, memory, and the impossibility of realistically representing war across his eight combat and Cold War films as well as his television and script work ... Fuller was a master storyteller, and Gordons meticulous research reorients and adds texture to many of the yarns he told not only about his films, but also about his own lifeGordons focus allows her to provide sustained attention to individual pictures, interweaving discussion of their production and reception with detailed analysis of the films themselves and their political, cultural, and generic contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Marsha Gordon, Marsha (Associate Professor of Film Studie Gordon, Gordon Marsha
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780190269746
• ISBN: 978-0-19-026974-6
• No. of pages: 330
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; USA, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Military / United States, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / General, c 1960 to c 1970, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1950 to c 1959, c 1960 to c 1969, Modern warfare, Film: styles & genres, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, C 1945 To C 1960, Film: styles and genres, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director, Film history, theory or criticism