Hollywood War Films, 1937–1945
An Exhaustive Filmography of American Feature-Length Motion Pictures Relating to World War II
by Michael S. Shull and David Edward Wilt
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From 1937 through 1945, Hollywood produced over 1,000 films relating to the war. This enormous and exhaustive reference work first analyzes the war films as sociopolitical documents. Part one, entitled “The Crisis Abroad, 1937–1941,” focuses on movies that reflected America’s increasing uneasiness. Part two, “Waging War, 1942–1945,” reveals that many movies made from 1942 through 1945 included at least some allusion to World War II.
About the authors:
Film historian and media propaganda specialist Michael S. Shull currently teaches film history at George Washington University and teaches mass communications at Montgomery College (both in the Washington, D.C., area). He lives in Germantown, Maryland.
David Edward Wilt is a librarian at the University of Maryland in College Park. He is also the author of The Mexican Filmography (2003). Together they coauthored Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short Films, 1939–1945 (second edition, 2004).
Press Reviews:
"greatly furthers our understanding of wartime society in America…comprehensive…. Recommended…definitive"—Library Journal; "provides information on an amazing number of films…no other book comes close…. Recommended"—Choice.
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