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.

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Motion pictures--History--United States--20th century.
Motion pictures--Plots, themes, etc.--United States
Películas--Historia.--Estados Unidos

PN 1993.5 / A512 2006

791.43