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Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
Mark Harris
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Description for Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
Paperback. Before the Second World War the Hollywood box office was booming, but the business was accused of being too foreign, too Jewish, too 'un-American'. Then the war changed everything. With characteristic insight and expert knowledge, the author tells the untold story of how Hollywood changed World War II, and how World War II changed Hollywood. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 40. Weight in Grams: 582.
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Before the Second World War the Hollywood box office was booming, but the business was accused of being too foreign, too Jewish, too 'un-American'. Then the war changed everything. With Pearl Harbor came the opportunity for Hollywood to prove its critics wrong.
America's most legendary directors played a huge role in the war effort: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens. Between them they shaped the public perception of almost every major moment of the war. With characteristic insight and expert knowledge Harris tells the untold story of how Hollywood changed World War II, and how World War II changed Hollywood.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847678560
SKU
V9781847678560
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About Mark Harris
Mark Harris is the author of Scenes From A Revolution: 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 non-fiction books of the decade by Salon. An editor-at-large for Entertainment Weekly, a columnist for Grantland and a contributing editor for New York Magazine, he has written about pop culture and film history for many other publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, and GQ. A graduate of Yale University, he lives in New York City with his husband, Tony Kushner.
Reviews for Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
The bombs fall on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 and Hollywood rolls up its sleeves and swaps the diplomatic velvet glove for the patriotic steel fist . . . A story well worth telling
Observer
A captivating history . . . makes you want to revisit many of the films
Daily Telegraph
Mark Harris conducts a fastidious investigation into the five top filmmakers who put their careers on hold to help the war effort . . . Fascinating
Total Film
Harris deftly threads the story of each man into the wider canvases of Hollywood and the war
Scotland on Sunday
Gripping . . . reveals how an elite squad of Hollywood's greatest directors recorded the bravest - and bloodiest - actions of World War II
Mail on Sunday
Tough-minded, information-packed and irresistibly readable
New York Times
Can't-put-it-down history of the World War II propaganda film
San Francisco Chronicle
Harris has a huge story to tell, and he does so brilliantly . . . an inspirational, if cautionary, tale of the triumph of the individual over the collective, of personal vision over groupthink, and ultimately of art over propaganda
Wall Street Journal
Harris is a lively commentator, and a master weaver of multifarious threads
Empire
Impeccably researched and irresistibly entertaining
Belfast Telegraph
Observer
A captivating history . . . makes you want to revisit many of the films
Daily Telegraph
Mark Harris conducts a fastidious investigation into the five top filmmakers who put their careers on hold to help the war effort . . . Fascinating
Total Film
Harris deftly threads the story of each man into the wider canvases of Hollywood and the war
Scotland on Sunday
Gripping . . . reveals how an elite squad of Hollywood's greatest directors recorded the bravest - and bloodiest - actions of World War II
Mail on Sunday
Tough-minded, information-packed and irresistibly readable
New York Times
Can't-put-it-down history of the World War II propaganda film
San Francisco Chronicle
Harris has a huge story to tell, and he does so brilliantly . . . an inspirational, if cautionary, tale of the triumph of the individual over the collective, of personal vision over groupthink, and ultimately of art over propaganda
Wall Street Journal
Harris is a lively commentator, and a master weaver of multifarious threads
Empire
Impeccably researched and irresistibly entertaining
Belfast Telegraph