Recommended Readings: Updated List
There have been plenty of books written about Hollywood’s contribution to the war effort. One of the most well known books is Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profit, Propaganda, Shaped World War II...
Category: History through Film
The Battle of Midway now a major a motion picture (again)
Coming to theaters this November is a new take on a battle many said turned the tied of the war in the Pacific. Roland Emmerich’s World War II film, Midway. This film should not...
The Anatomy of My Research
For the past year or so, I have been reading and researching Hollywood’s cooperation with the government during World War II. It has taken me down roads I never thought possible. It’s also led...
Training the Troops through Cartoons
Wartime animated shorts featured a cross-section of inspiring the home front to buy war bonds to educating soldiers heading off to war.
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
WARNER BROTHERS (1939) | DIRECTED BY ANATOLE LITVAK | WRITTEN BY MILTON KRIMS & JOHN WEXLEY Confessions of a Nazi Spy was the first major film to be unabashedly anti-Nazi. Released in 1939, it was...
Research Moving Along for Hollywood and World War II Project
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve last given an update on my Hollywood and government cooperation during World War II project. It is progressing along, sometimes quickly and at other times at a snail’s pace.
Newsreels and World War II
Another aspect of the project I am working is how newsreels were used to information the public. These short films usually were not longer than ten minutes. They appeared before the main future or other films at movie theaters across the nation.
The Celluloid Foxhole: World War Two, the Government and Hollywood
There was no better way for the U.S. government to prepare America for laid ahead after the Pearl Harbor than putting Hollywood to work. The basis of a project I am currently working on is an expansion of two papers I wrote while in college.
History through Film
Films can educate us about our past but it can also twist it make it unrecognizable and distorted creating a myth that’s false or misleading. This is why I’ve come up with this category for the website. It’s a chance for me to showcase a film or a TV series (I’m a big fan of the series MASH) that is about our collective past as a country and as a people.
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