The propaganda of violence: early Hollywood war films
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https://doi.org/10.5433/el.2010v6.e25514Keywords:
Language of Violence, Censorship, War Cinema.Abstract
This article examines the Hollywood film about the Second World War, an exemplary site for representations of violence, which were, however subject to a number of political restraints: from the government agencies, which wanted to project a positive image of the nation and the Allies; and from the studios themselves, which wanted to exploit the dramatic possibilities of the war film but at the same time were under pressure from the government not to show “realistic” representations that might cause disturbances on the home front.Downloads
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BORDWELL, David; STAIGER, Janet; THOMPSON, Kristin. The Classical American Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.
CLAUSEWITZ, Carl von. On War. Ed. and trans. Micheael Howard and Peter Paret. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976.
GILBERT, Martin. The Second World War: A Complete History. New York: Holt, 1989.
KEEN, Robert. Faces of the Enemy: Reflections of the Hostile Imagination. New York: Harper’s Row, 1998.
KOPPES, Clayton; BLACK, Gregory. Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
MAY, Larry. Making the American Consensus: The Narratives of Conversion and Subversion in World War II Films. In: ERENBERG, Lewis; HIRSCH, Susan E. The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness During World War II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. p. 71-102.
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SCHINDLER, Colin. Hollywood Goes to War: Films and American Society 1939-52. London & Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979.
WALSH, Jeffrey. American War Literature: 1914 to Vietnam. St. Martin’s Press, 1982.
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2010-11-16
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Burns, T. (2010). The propaganda of violence: early Hollywood war films. Estação Literária, 6, 5–16. https://doi.org/10.5433/el.2010v6.e25514
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