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Repicturing the Second World War

Representations in Film and Television

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  • © 2007

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  1. Michael Paris

    1. University of Central Lancashire, UK

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Film, Television, and the Second World War — The First Fifty Years

    • Michael Paris
    Pages 1-11

  3. ‘Rose-tinted Blighty’: Gender and Genre in Land Girls

    • Wendy Webster
    Pages 12-25

  4. Policing the People’s War: Foyle’s War and British Television Drama

    • James Chapman
    Pages 26-38

  5. An Autobiographical Allegory: Franco Zeffirelli’s Tea With Mussolini

    • Robert W. Matson
    Pages 39-54

  6. Soccer with the Dead: Mediterraneo, the Legacy of Neorealismo, and the Myth of Italiani Brava Gente

    • Saverio Giovacchini
    Pages 55-69

  7. Safe Conduct: A Tribute to The French Film Industry During the Second World War

    • Diane Afoumado
    Pages 70-82

  8. Aimée, Jaguar and Sophie Scholl: Women on the German Home Front

    • Helen Jones
    Pages 83-93

  9. ‘This Film is based on a True Story’: The Tuskegee Airmen

    • S. P. Mackenzie
    Pages 94-104

  10. ‘What Happened was Wrong’: Come See the Paradise and the Japanese-American Experience in the Second World War

    • Michael Paris
    Pages 105-118

  11. Commissioning Mass Murder: Conspiracy and History at the Wannsee Conference

    • Simone Gigliotti
    Pages 119-133

  12. Laughing Against Horror: Life is Beautiful and Train of Life

    • Pierre Sorlin
    Pages 134-147

  13. Enemy at the Gates as a ‘Soviet’ War Film

    • Denise J. Youngblood
    Pages 148-161

  14. Bomber Harris: Raking Through the Ashes of the Strategic Air Campaign Against Germany

    • Mark Connelly
    Pages 162-176

  15. Realism, Historical Truth and the War Film: The Case of Saving Private Ryan

    • Toby Haggith
    Pages 177-191

  16. Downfall and Other Endings: German Film and Hitler’s War after Sixty Years

    • Tony Barta
    Pages 192-204

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 205-235
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About this book

Films and television dramas about the Second World War have always been popular. Written by acknowledged experts in the field, this collection offers challenging, sometimes controversial, insights into how the popular memory of the Second World War has been 're-pictured' since 1989, which marked the sixtieth anniversary of the start of the war.

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  • University of Central Lancashire, UK

    Michael Paris

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DIANE AFOUMADO Memorial de la Shoah, Paris, France TONY BARTA La Trobe University, Australia JAMES CHAPMAN University of Leicester, UK MARK CONNELLY University of Kent, Canterbury, UK SIMONE GIGLIOTTI Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand SAVERIO GIOVACCHINI University of Maryland, USA TOBY HAGGITH Imperial War Museum, London, UK HELEN JONES University of Central Lancashire, UK S.P. MACKENZIE University of South Carolina, USA ROBERT W. MATSON University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, USA PIERRE SORLIN University of Paris III, France WENDY WEBSTER University of Central Lancashire, UK DENISE J. YOUNGBLOOD University of Vermont, USA.

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