Buy this book on-line DICK, BERNARD F: : The Star-Spangled Screen - The American World War 2 FilmUSA.UNIVERSITY PRESS of KENTUCKY,1985. ISBN 0813115310.
US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Minimal shelf-wear top+bottom dw/dj edges,a couple
of small closed nicks - no loss.8vo,294pp,
b/w illus,appendix,film+subject indices,
notes.
Concerned, primarily with the films of the war years,although it includes discussion of such post-war movies as Battleground(1949),Attack(1956),The Bridge on the River Kwai(1957),and Baataan(1970).
Begins in 1933,when the film industry awakened to facism.A penetrating study, documented and illustrated,examining historical accuracy (or lack of it) of films about the Third Reich,European Resistance, Battle of Britain,Baataan and D-Day.It is also the first book about US WW2 films to draw on archival material (producers's memos,screenplay drafts,Haye Office mandates.) from the major studios, particularly MGM,Twentieth Century-Fox, Warner Bros and Paramount.
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