Repicturing the Second World War: Representations in Film and Television

Cover......Page 2
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
1 Introduction: Film, Television, and the Second World War – The First Fifty Years......Page 13
2 ‘Rose-tinted Blighty’: Gender and Genre in Land Girls......Page 24
3 Policing the People’s War: Foyle’s War and British Television Drama......Page 38
4 An Autobiographical Allegory: Franco Zeffirelli’s Tea With Mussolini......Page 51
5 Soccer with the Dead: Mediterraneo, the Legacy of Neorealismo, and the Myth of Italiani Brava Gente......Page 67
6 Safe Conduct: A Tribute to The French Film Industry During the Second World War......Page 82
7 Aimée, Jaguar and Sophie Scholl: Women on the German Home Front......Page 95
8 ‘This Film is based on a True Story’: The Tuskegee Airmen......Page 106
9 ‘What Happened was Wrong’: Come See the Paradise and the Japanese-American Experience in the Second World War......Page 117
10 Commissioning Mass Murder: Conspiracy and History at the Wannsee Conference......Page 131
11 Laughing Against Horror: Life is Beautiful and Train of Life......Page 146
12 Enemy at the Gates as a ‘Soviet’ War Film......Page 160
13 Bomber Harris: Raking Through the Ashes of the Strategic Air Campaign Against Germany......Page 174
14 Realism, Historical Truth and the War Film: The Case of Saving Private Ryan......Page 189
15 Downfall and Other Endings: German Film and Hitler’s War after Sixty Years......Page 204
Notes and References......Page 217
D......Page 244
L......Page 245
S......Page 246
Z......Page 247