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The fatal alliance : a century of war on film

Thomson, David, 1941- author

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
• Subject: War films History and criticism. / Motion picture industry History 20th century. / Motion picture industry History 21st century. / Performing Arts.
• ISBN: 9780063041417

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PN1995.9.W3 T46 2023	1	BOOK	ARTS