World War II in Film

Catalog description

Offers a comprehensive survey of how film has represented the Second World War. Using a transdisciplinary approach, studies how films from the time of the Second World War to the present have portrayed that conflict. Compares different perspectives on the causes and results of the war, as well as engage in analysis of how important issues such as international political and economic relationships, religion, gender, ethnicity, class, race, technology and the psychological effects of violence get shown in movies about World War II.