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Wartime Kiss: Visions of the Moment in the 1940s

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Description for Wartime Kiss: Visions of the Moment in the 1940s Hardback. Examines an array of forgotten images and movie episodes - from a photo of Jimmy Stewart and Olivia de Havilland lying on a picnic blanket in Santa Barbara hills to scenes from films as "Twelve O'Clock High" and "Hold Back the Dawn". This book reveals background of these bits of film and discovers unexpected connections between war and Hollywood. Series: Essays in the Arts. Num Pages: 184 pages, 46 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACXD; AJ; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 510.
Wartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World War II and the later 1940s. Starting with a stunning reinterpretation of one of the most famous photos of all time, Alfred Eisenstaedt's image of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day, Alexander Nemerov goes on to examine an array of mostly forgotten images and movie episodes--from a photo of Jimmy Stewart and Olivia de Havilland lying on a picnic blanket in the Santa Barbara hills to scenes from such films as Twelve O'Clock High and Hold Back the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
184
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Series
Essays in the Arts
Condition
New
Weight
510g
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691145785
SKU
V9780691145785
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About Alexander Nemerov
Alexander Nemerov is the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Stanford University. He is the author of five previous books, including To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America, Icons of Grief: Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures, and Acting in the Night: "Macbeth" and the Places of the Civil War.

Reviews for Wartime Kiss: Visions of the Moment in the 1940s
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013 "Beginning with Alfred Eisenstaedt's famous image of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square at the end of the Second World War, the art historian Alexander Nemerov's Wartime Kiss examines photos and film stills from the war period and later in the nineteen-forties. Many of the images collected here are lesser-known ... Read more

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