World War II movies for research and teaching...A response to recent questions about this fertile topic as we continue to celebrate the legacy of "the greatest generation." Film & History published a massive issue on World War II a few years back under the direction of Special Editor Robert Matson. Below is the Table of Contents. Matson supplies a useful introduction and the issue concludes with a long, annotated bibliography by Peter Rollins. _________________________ VOLUME 27: 1-4, 1997 Special Editor's Introduction. By Robert W. Matson ---World War II in Film ---- Anglophilia on Film: Creating an Atmosphere for Alliance, 1935-1941. By Michael Todd Bennett A Change of Heart: Alvin York and the Movie _Sergeant York _. By Michael Birdwell "All Unquiet on the Hollywood Front": Actor Lew Ayers as Conscientious Objector. By Heather Frazer and John O'Sullivan Awakening a Sleeping Giant: The Pearl Harbor Attack on Film. By Ralph R. Donald Democracy Goes to War: _Air Force_(1943). By Michael Paris _This is the Army_: The Show Musical Goes to War. By Dan Cabaniss Tough `Ombres and _Battleground_: The Reel War and the Real War. By Suzanne Broderick Differing Understandings of Captivity in _Uranus_. By Elliott Gruner Individual Commitment in _To Have and Have Not_. By Daniel G. Shaw Archetypes as Propaganda in Hitchcock's "Lost" World War II Films. By J. Justin Gustainis and Deborah Jay DeSilva The Atomic Agincourt: _Henry V_ and the Filmic Making of Postwar Anglo-American Cultural Relations. By John G. Nichols America, World War II, and the Movies: An Annotated Booklist. By Peter C. Rollins Book Reviews on a variety of topics round out the issue. _________________________ The above issue is available from Film & History. See web site for details. Peter Rollins Peter C. Rollins, Editor Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and TV Studies (Web site: http://h-net.msu.edu/~filmhis) Also, www.filmandhistory.org RR 3 Box 80 Cleveland, OK 74020 (918)243-7637 and fax 5995 [log in to unmask] Comments: Individual subscription information on the web site as well as information and FAQ's about the CD-ROMs. There are also discussion items and essays on Saving Private Ryan, Amistad, CNN's Cold War, and a host of other topics. The Table of Contents for the last thirty years is there as well. Lastest issues deal with Television as Historian and edited by Gary Edgerton (Old Dominion U). The next two issues will focus on THE COLD WAR IN FILM AND TV with senior scholar Phil Landon (UMBC) as guest editor. Recent conference was in November, 2000 on The Presidency in Film at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California (45 mins. north of LAX). Information and registration details are on the web site! This conference was co-sponsored by California State University-Northridge, a neighbor to the Presidential Library and the conference hotel. www.filmandhistory.org Two books will result: _The Presidency in Film and TV_ will be a comprehensive overview and will be published by the UP of Kentucky. A collection of essays on _The West Wing_ is under consideration by the Syracuse UP. (See "The Chronicle of Higher Education" HOT TYPE column for details--January 5th, 2001.) Next conference will be in the fall of 2002 and will focus on the topic of THE AMERICAN WEST(S) IN FILM, TELEVISION, AND HISTORY. The event will be held in Kansas City, one of the great gateways to the West. Please start planning your paper! ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu