American cinema of the 1940s : themes and variations /
edited by Wheeler Winston Dixon.
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2006.
- xiv, 283 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Screen decades .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-259) and index.
Movies and the 1940s / Wheeler Winston Dixon -- Movies and the reassessment of America / Matthew Bernstein -- Movies on the edge of war / Sarah Kozloff -- Movies and the march to war / Steven Jay Schneider -- Movies and national identity / Catherine L. Preston -- Movies and the renegotiation of genre / Nicholas Spencer -- Movies and the march home / Kristine Butler Karlson -- Movies and postwar recovery / Wheeler Winston Dixon -- Movies and the "enemy" within / Tony Williams -- Movies and the family / Joanna Rapf -- Movies and the fate of genre / Marcia Landy.