...This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the filmic writing of American history in Hollywood films. The findings reveal that Hollywood filmmakers had helped create a powerful historical legacy and for more than a decade they proved that films could argue complex historical...

... Pearl Harbor They Were Expandable Bombardier Wake Island Hollywood films You know, that’s the worst part about war. You meet somebody. You get to know them. Wham! You never see them again. You see something, but you never know how it ends. It would be nice to know right now how all this is going...

... already been established. It also reveals more about the experience of Hollywood films as European films were entering the scene, and how the American filmmaker had to face a wide variety of different conflicts and dilemmas. Dartmouth College Hanover NH Penn Arthur Warner Bros film studio Odets...

...This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the effects World War 2 films had in the U.S. and how they gave viewers ways to know the war. This book discusses the Hollywood films made in the years after the war began but before the U.S. entry into the war...

...This chapter examines Hollywood films made after the end of World War 2. It suggests that these films address the anxiety about the type of country post-war America was becoming while some demonstrate the power that Hollywood's war films had to influence the way the war would be understood...