Projections of War - (Film and Culture) 2nd Edition by Thomas Doherty (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>In this lively cultural history, Doherty demonstrates that wartime Hollywood was not a rigidly controlled propaganda machine, as is often assumed, but an ad-hoc collaborative effort between the government and film industry.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In this lively cultural history, Doherty demonstrates that wartime Hollywood was not a rigidly controlled propaganda machine, as is often assumed, but an ad-hoc collaborative effort between the government and film industry.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A wide-ranging, lively study which combines close readings of various key films with discussions of genre, ethnicity, and beauracracy.... [A] vivid blend of polemic and social history.--Times Literary Supplement<br><br>This is a model social history of war movies--both a penetrating examination of Hollywood at war and a bracing argument about the effects of the war on the nature of Hollywood entertainment.--Kirkus Reviews<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Thomas Doherty is associate professor of the American Studies Department and chair of the Film Studies Program at Brandeis University. He is author of <i>Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934</i> (Columbia, 1999) and <i>Teenagers and Teenpics: The Juvenilizatzion of American Movies in the 1950s, </i> and is associate editor of the film journal <i>Cinéaste.</i>
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