Description: Film is Like a Battleground by Marsha Gordon Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fullers War Movies is the first book to focus on the genre that best defined the American directors career: the war film. It draws on previously unexplored archival materials, such as Fullers Federal Bureau of Investigation files and WWII-era amateur films, to explore the directors lifelong interest in making movies representing war and conflict. Publisher Description Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fullers War Movies is the first book to focus on the genre that best defined the American directors career: the war film. It draws on previously unexplored archival materials, such as Fullers Federal Bureau of Investigation files and WWII-era 16mm films, to explore the directors lifelong interest in making challenging, thought-provoking, and often politically dangerous movies about war. Afterestablishing the roots of Fullers cinematographic schooling in the trenches during World War II, including careful consideration of his 16mm footage of a Nazi camp at the end of that war, Film is Like aBattleground explores Fullers first forays into hot war representation in Hollywood with the pioneering Korean conflict films The Steel Helmet (1951) and Fixed Bayonets (1951). This pair of films introduced Fuller to his first run-ins with the American political machine when they triggered both FBI and Department of Defense investigations into his political sympathies and affiliations. Fullers cold war films Pickup on South Street (1953) and, though itveers into hot war territory, Hell and High Water (1954) are Fullers responses to the political pressures he had now personally experienced and resented. A chapter on Fullers representation of pre-American-invasion Vietnam in China Gate(1957) alongside his unrealized Vietnam war screenplay, The Rifle (ca. late 1960s), illustrates the degree to which Fullers representation of war and nation shifted even as he continued to probe wars impossible contradictions.Film is Like a Battleground would be incomplete without a thorough exploration of the films depicting the war Fuller personally experienced and spent a lifetime contemplating, WWII. Verboten! (1959), MerrillsMarauders (1962), and The Big Red One (1980) demonstrate Fullers representation of a morally justifiable war. Fullers 1959 CBS television pilot--Dogface--offers a glimpse at one of Fullers failed attempts to bring his WWII story intoAmerican living rooms. The book concludes with a chapter about a documentary film made late in the directors life that returns Fuller to the actual site of the Nazis Falkenau camp, at which he discusses his experiences there and that powerful, unforgettable footage he shot in the spring of 1945. Author Biography Dr. Marsha Gordon is Associate Professor of Film Studies at North Carolina State University. She is the author of Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age, co-editor of Learning with the Lights Off: A Reader in Educational Film in the United States, and the former co-editor of The Moving Image journal. Details ISBN 019026974X ISBN-13 9780190269746 Title Film is Like a Battleground Author Marsha Gordon Format Hardcover Year 2017 Pages 330 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc GE_Item_ID:137031616; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9780190269746
Book Title: Film is Like a Battleground
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Name: Film Is like a Battleground : Sam Fuller's War Movies
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: Film / Genres / Action & Adventure, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Film / History & Criticism
Item Height: 1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 24.6 Oz
Item Length: 6.3 in
Author: Marsha Gordon
Subject Area: Performing Arts
Item Width: 9.3 in
Format: Hardcover
