Celluloid Wars - A Guide to Film and the American Experience of War

This easy-to-use guide explores the relationships between film images and the experience of war, showing how films influence war-time behavior and how wars influence films. This unique reference combines essays on the aesthetic and historical aspects of war films with classifications and discussions of films about different wars, a filmography arranged alphabetically with annotations, a bibliography of books and articles dealing with war films, a general guide for film study, along with separate indices to film titles, filmmakers, and subjects.

This is both a research guide and text for serious scholars of military history and American popular culture, and an attractive reader for history buffs and for a general audience.

List of contents

Illustrations
Foreword by Roger J. Spiller
Preface
"Uncle Toby's War": War Films and Aesthetic Experience
"Been to See the Elephant": Film and Combat Experience
Early American Wars
Wars with Mexico
American Civil War
Indian Wars
New Imperial Wars
The Great War
World War II (Wartime Films)
World War II (Postwar Films)
Korean War
Vietnam War
Banana Wars and Interventions
Nuclear Warfare
War Film Bibliography
General Reference to Film
Appendices: Top Ten War Films; Best Film for Each War; Releasing Companies
Main Index
Director Index
Title Index

About the author

Stephen Curley, Frank J. Wetta

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Curley, Curley Stephen, Frank Wetta, Wetta Frank J.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.1992
• EAN: 9780313260995
• ISBN: 978-0-313-26099-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Weight: 595 g
• Series: Research Guides in Military Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; HISTORY / Military / General, Films, cinema, Reference works, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Reference, War and defence operations, War & defence operations, Popular Culture: Film