Author Archive for: ‘Michael Paris’
The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies have Portrayed the American Past
American history on film Peter C. Rollins (ed), The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies have Portrayed the American Past. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0 231 11222 X 696pp US$85.00 (hb) (Review copy supplied by Columbia University Press) Phyllis R. Klotman (Director), African Americans in Cinema: The First Half Century. Champaign, Ill: University of …
Read MoreLance Comfort
Brian McFarlane, Lance Comfort. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0 7190 5484 2 225pp £9.99 (pb) Neil Sinyard, Jack Clayton. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0 7190 5505 9 289pp £14.99 (pb) (Review copies supplied by Manchester University Press) Both of these titles are from the Manchester University Press series British Film Makers, which will eventually include not only …
Read MoreScreening the Past: Film and the Representation of History
Tony Barta (editor), Screening the Past: Film and the Representation of History. Westport Ct: Praeger. 1998 ISBN 0-275-95402-1 279pp $59.95(hb) Uploaded 1 July 1999 The essays in Tony Barta’s collection focus on the relationship between film and history – on the ‘many ways in which the past is “screened” ‘; an attempt to ‘integrate the academic culture of historians….with the …
Read MoreBritish Cinema and the Cold War: The State, Propaganda and Consensus
Tony Shaw, British Cinema and the Cold War: The State, Propaganda and Consensus. London: I.B. Tauris, 2001. ISBN 1 86064 371-X (hb) 281pp £39.50 (Review copy supplied by I.B. Tauris) Uploaded 1 December 2001 A great deal has been written about the propagandist role of the American film industry during the Cold War; from studies of individual films such as Iron …
Read MoreFilm Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany: World War II Cinema
Jo Fox, Film Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany: World War II Cinema. Oxford: Berg, 2007. ISBN: 9 781 85973896 2 £17.99 (pb) 368pp (Review copy supplied by Berg publishers) The Second World War still continues to exert great fascination on scholars and the public alike, and no aspect of the war appears more fascinating than film propaganda. In recent …
Read MoreFilm Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German Films of the Weimar period (1919 – 1933)
Bernadette Kester, Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German Films of the Weimar period (1919 – 1933). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2004 ISBN 90 5356 597 3 329pp US$27.50 (pr) (Review copy supplied by Amsterdam University Press) Films dealing with the First World War, with a few notable exceptions like the British documentary The Battle of the …
Read MoreCitizen Spy: Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture
Michael Kackman, Citizen Spy: Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 8166 3829 2 280pp US$18.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) By the beginning of the 1950s, Hollywood, anxious to demonstrate its loyalty to the American cause after a spate of liberal wartime movies which had attempted to show …
Read MoreThe Naval War Film: Genre, History, National Cinema
Jonathan Rayner, The Naval War Film: Genre, History, National Cinema. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-7098-3 US$84.95 (hb) 275pp (Review copy supplied by Manchester University Press) A great deal of critical attention has been lavished on the war film by practitioners of film and history, but while films dealing with the doings of armies and air forces, have been …
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