Full Description
This book discusses different aspects of the cinematic and literary representation of war. The papers in this volume consider the roles of war films and war novels in remaking historical memories, the influence of films and novels as social media and debate their roles as instruments of propaganda and mystification. The book is organized along chronological and geographical lines, looking first at the First and Second World Wars in Europe; then the Pacific War; the Vietnam War; and espionage and propaganda in the Cold War and Post-Cold War.
Contents
Contents: Richard Mason/Jarosław Suchoples: Introduction - Eberhard Demm: Barbusse and His Fire: The Last Card of French War Propaganda - Jarosław Suchoples: The Beginning of World War II in Polish Narrative Films: From the Collapse of the Communist System to the Present (1989-2013) - Torsten Schaar/Nicole Ogasa: The Holocaust in Selected European Feature Films, 2010-2013 - Torsten Schaar/Bernd Schäfer/Raimond Selke: World War II in Europe in Selected European Feature Films, 2010-2013 - Richard Mason/Rashila Haji Ramli: Images of the Asia-Pacific War in Selected Feature Films - Zawiah Yahya: Rising Sun, Setting Sun: British and Malayan Perspectives on the Japanese Occupation of Malaya in Fiction - Paul Cornelius: Hollywood and Vietnam: The Fading Vietnam War Narrative - Roy Anthony Rogers: Political Propaganda in its Subtleties in James Bond 007 Movies.
