There was a paper entitled "Fighting Films: The Everyday Tactics of World
War II Soldiers" by William Friedman Fagelson in Cinema Journal vol. 40, no.
3. The abstract at the beginning states:

"American soldiers watching movies near the front lines during World War II
talked back to the screen, interacting with the texts and with each other."

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