Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (979 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1594204306 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Tear closed the book with me My tears helped close the bookMaybe I am one of the oldest reviewers so myperspective is different. The Second World War affected me as a child to thepoint that I had to write a book about it myself, from that childhood point ofview. It was something I could not forget all my life . I saw 'the great movies'as a child and yes, I mentioned them in my books. They too, affected me as a child.The generations since, can only try to understand what it was like. Harrishimself may not know the collective consciousness of the time but his excellentbook brought . Insightful, Interesting Look at Hollywood History Evan Purcell With the new documentary coming out soon, this is the best time to buy a copy of this book. It's a fascinating look at Hollywood past, and how wartime politics shaped the careers of five similar-yet-different directors. It's an insightful time capsule for movie buffs, and I highly recommend it. (When I finished reading it, I gave my copy to my dad, and he liked it too. This seems like a pretty solid "dad gift."). History and Cinema really enjoyed Mark Harris' first book, Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood, about the changes in the movie industry in the late 60s. It was with great anticipation that I read his latest, Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War (201History and Cinema Patrick Mc Coy really enjoyed Mark Harris' first book, Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood, about the changes in the movie industry in the late 60s. It was with great anticipation that I read his latest, Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War (2014) which combines two of my greatest interest-films and WWII history. Harris follows five Hollywood directors (John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens) who enlist in the armed forces and make propaganda films and record events that ta. ) which combines two of my greatest interest-films and WWII history. Harris follows five Hollywood directors (John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens) who enlist in the armed forces and make propaganda films and record events that ta
Nothing else had the power of film to educate and inspire. But the government was not remotely equipped to harness it—so FDR and the military had little choice but to turn to Hollywood for help. The product of five years of original archival research, Five Came Back is an epic achievement, providing a revelatory new understanding of Hollywood’s role in the war through the life and work of five men who chose to go, and who came back.. But between them they were on the scene of almost every major moment of America’s war and in every branch of service—army, navy, and air force, Atlantic and Pacific; from Midway to North Africa; from Normandy to the fall of Paris and the liberation of the Nazi death camps. In Five CameBack, he gives us something even more remarkable: the untold story of how Hollywood changed World War II, and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the director’s lens.It is little remembered now, but in prewar America, Hollywood’s relationship with Washington was decidedly tense. Investigations into corruption and racketeering were multiplying, and hanging in the air was the insinuation that the business was too foreign, too Jewish, too “un-American” in its values and causes. In an unprecedented move, the whole business was farmed out to a handful of Hollywood’s most acclaimed film directors, accompanied by a creative freedom over film-making in combat zones that no one
Every chapter contains small, priceless nuggets of movie history (Joseph Goebbels thought Wyler’s Mrs. From Booklist *Starred Review* It’s hardly news that the movies affect and are affected by the broader canvas of popular culture and world history, but Harris—perhaps more successfully than any other writer, past or present—manages to find in that symbiotic relationship the stuff of great stories. The stories of what John Ford, George Stevens, John Huston, William Wyler, and Frank Capra did in the war are dramatic (Ford filming the opening salvo in the Battle of Midway from a rooftop; Wyler riding along on
Mark Harris is the author of Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood, which was a New York Times notable book of the year and was named one of the ten best nonfiction books of the decade by Salon. . An editor at large at Entertainment Weekly, a columnist for Grantland, and a contributing editor at New York Magazine, he has written