The fatal alliance : a century of war on film
Thomson, David, 1941-2024
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Film critic David Thomson offers us one of his most provocative books yet - a rich, arresting, and troubling study of that most beloved genre: the war movie. It is not a standard history or survey of war films, although Thomson turns his typically piercing eye to many favourites - from All Quiet on the Western Front to The Bridge on the River Kwai to Saving Private Ryan. But 'The Fatal Alliance' does much more, exploring how war and cinema in the 20 century became inextricably linked. Movies had only begun to exist by the beginning of World War I, yet in less than a century, had transformed civilian experience of war - and history itself - for millions around the globe.
Main title:
The fatal alliance : a century of war on film / David Thomson.
Author:
Thomson, David, 1941-, author
Imprint:
London : Harper, 2024.
Collation:
xii, 435 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780063041417 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
791.436581
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2404121