HISTORY 180-02 WAR AND CINEMA SPRING 2001
PROFESSORS ATTREED AND POWERS
GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY:
A WORK IN PROGRESS,
LAST UPDATED 2/13/01

Abramowitz, Rachel. “Dressed to Kilt.” Premiere, May 1995, pp. 74-77.
Abramowitz, Rachel. “Welcome to the Jungle.” Premiere, January 1999, 78-85, 94-95. (“Thin Red Line”)
Adams, Michael C. C. The Best War Ever: America and World War II. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Aldgate, Tony. “Ideological Consensus in British Feature Films, 1935-1947.” In Feature Films as History, ed. K. R. M. Short, pp. 94-112. London: Croom Helm, 1981.
Ambrose, Stephen E. Americans at War. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.
Barna, Yon. Eisenstein. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973.
Basinger, Jeanine. American Cinema: One Hundred Years of Filmmaking. New York: Rizzoli, 1994.
Basinger, Jeanine. “Translating War: The Combat Film Genre and Saving Private Ryan.” Perspectives: American Historical Association Newsletter 36 (October 1998): 1, 43-47.
Basinger, Jeanine. The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.
Behlmer, ed. Memo from David O. Selznick. New York: Viking Press, 1972.
Bernstein, Richard. “Can Movies Teach History?” The New York Times, 26 November 1989, section 2, pages 1, 18, 19.
Boyer, Paul. By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
Branagh, Kenneth. “Henry V.” In Players of Shakespeare 2, ed. Russell Jackson and Robert Smallwood, pp. 93-105. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Brecher, Frank W. “Lawrence of Arabia as History.” Film and History 19 (Dec. 1989): 92-94.
Briggs, Susan. The Home Front: War Years in Britain 1939-1945. New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., 1975.
Brokaw, Tom. The Greatest Generation. New York: Random House, 1998.
Canby, Vincent. “At Close Range: The Human Face of War.” New York Times, 21 January 1990.
Capa, Robert. Slightly Out of Focus. New York: The Modern Library, 1999.
Carnes, Mark C., gen. ed. Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995.
Catton, Bruce. Never Call Retreat. The Centennial History of the Civil War, Vol. 3. New York: Doubleday and Company, 1965.
Chambers II, John Whiteclay and Culbeat, David. World War II: Film and History. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Chapman, James. The British at War: Cinema, State and Propaganda, 1939-1945. London and New York: I.B.Tauris Publishers, 1998.
Coyle, Wallace. Stanley Kubrick: A Guide to References and Resources. Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1980.
Dibbets, Karel, and Hogenkamp, Bert, eds. Film and the First World War. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1995.
Dick, Bernard F. The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1985.
Didion, Joan. “I Can’t Get that Monster out of My Mind.” In Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 152-59. New York: Washington Square Press, 1968.
Ditmann, Laurent. “Made You Look: Towards a Critical Evaluation of Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan.” Film and History 28 (1998): 64-70.
Doherty, Thomas. Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
Dvorak, Ken. “Braveheart: A Distant Hero for a Post-Modernist Audience?” Film and History 25 (1995): 59.
Erenberg, Lewis A., and Hirsch, Susan E., eds. The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness During World War II. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Evans, Alun. Brassey’s Guide to War Films. Washington, D. C.: Brassey’s, 2000.
Evans, Joyce A. Celluloid Mushroom Clouds: Hollywood and the Atomic Bomb. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1998.
Fitter, Chris. “A Tale of Two Branaghs: Henry V, Ideology, and the Mekong Agincourt.” In Shakespeare Left and Right, ed. Ivo Kamps, pp. 259-75. New York and London: Routledge, 1991.
Fuller, Kathryn Helgesen. “Lessons from the Screen: Film and Video in the Classroom.” Perspectives: American Historical Association Newsletter 37 (April 1999): 45-48.
Fyne, Robert. “Braveheart Wins Two Golden Statuettes.” Film and History 25 (1995): 58, 76.
Gillespie, Susan, ed. Perspectives on Audiovisuals in the Teaching of History. Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 1999.
Goldman, William. “The Best Medicine: Saving Private Ryan.” Premiere, April 1999, 66-69.
Goulden, Joseph C. The Best Years 1945-1950. New York: Atheneum, 1976.
Greene, Graham. The Third Man and The Fallen Idol. London: Penguin Books, 1977.
Grindon, Leger. “Analyzing the Historical Fiction Film.” In Shadows on the Past: Studies in the Historical Fiction Film, pp. 1-26. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.
Hanson, Victor Davis. “The Third Army: Patton’s Race into Germany.” In The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny, 263-403. New York: The Free Press, 1999.
Harty, Kevin J. The Reel Middle Ages: Films About Medieval Europe. Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., 1999.
Henriksen, Margot A. Dr. Strangelove’s America: Society and Culture in the Atomic Age. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1997.
Heston, Charlton. The Actor’s Life: Journals 1956-1976. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1976.
Hoppenstand, Gary, Barrows, Floyd, and Lunde, Eric. “Bringing the War Home: William Wyler and World War II.” Film and History 27 (1997): 108-18.
“An Internet Discussion of Saving Private Ryan.” Film and History 28 (1998): 72-81.
Jackson, Kenneth. “The Thin Red Line: Not Enough History.” Perspectives: American Historical Association Newsletter 37 (April 1999): 25-28.
Jorgensen, C. Peter. “Gettysburg: How a Prize-Winning Novel Became a Motion Picture.” Civil War Times, Nov.-Dec. 1993, pp. 41-49, 92-93, 113.
Kane, Kathryn. Visions of War: Hollywood Combat Films of World War II. Studies in Cinema No. 9. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1982.
Kelly, Andrew. “The brutality of military incompetence: Paths of Glory and King and Country.” In Cinema and the Great War, 162-80. London and New York: Routledge, 1997.
Kelly, Andrew. “The measure for all anti-war cinema: All Quiet on the Western Front.” In Cinema and the Great War, 43-57. London and New York: Routledge, 1997.
Kracauer, Siegfried. “Those Movies with a Message.” Harper’s Magazine, 196 (June 1948): 567-72.
Landon, Phil. “Realism, Genre, and Saving Private Ryan.” Film and History 28 (1998): 58-62.
Landy, Marcia, ed. The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001.
Lopate, Phillip. “Above the Battle, Musing on the Profundities.” New York Times 17 January 1999.
Lyman, Rick. “True to the Timeless Fact that War Is Hell.” New York Times, 19 July 1998, 11 and 18-19. (“Saving”)
Madden, David, ed. Rediscoveries. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971.
Madsen, Axel. William Wyler. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1973.
Maier, Charles S., and Sherwin, Martin J. “The Cold War, the Atomic Bomb, and the “Revisionists.” In The Shaping of Twentieth-Century America: Interpretive Essays, 2nd ed., ed. Richard M. Abrams and Lawrence W. Levine, pp. 571-608. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1971.
Maslin, Janet. “By Being Honest About Violence, Spielberg Wins.” New York Times, 2 August 1998, 9, 12.
McDonald, William. “Long-Delayed Lessons About Fathers and a War.” New York Times, 26 July 1998,1, 16. (“Longest,” “Saving”)
Menand, Louis. “Jerry Don’t Surf [review of “Saving Private Ryan”).” New York Review of Books, 24 Sept. 1998, 7-8.
Miller, Gabriel. Screening the Novel: Rediscovered American Fiction in Film. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1980.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. London: Virago Press, 1999.
Nichols, John G. “The Atomic Agincourt: Henry V and the Filmic Making of Postwar Anglo-American Cultural Relations.” Film and History 27 (1997): 88-94.
Oates, William C., and Haskell, Frank A. Gettysburg. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.
O’Brien, Kenneth Paul, and Parsons, Lynn Hudson. The Home-Front War: World War II and American Society. Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 1995.
O’Brien, Tom. The Screening of America: Movies and Values from Rocky to Rainman. New York: Continuum, 1990.
O’Connell, Libby Haight. “Viewing History: The Pros and Cons of Presenting History on Television.” History News 49 (Sept./Oct. 1994): 14-17.
O’Connor, John E., and Jackson, Martin A., eds. American History/American Film: Interpreting the Hollywood Image. New expanded edition. New York: Continuum, 1988.
Olivier, Laurence. “The Making of Henry V.” In Masterworks of the British Cinema, pp. 193-95. London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1990.
Perrine, Toni A. Film and the Nuclear Age: Representing Cultural Anxiety. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998.
Phillips, Gene D. Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema. Rev. ed. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 1999.
Pronay, Nicholas. “The First Reality: Film Censorship in Liberal England.” In Feature Films as History, ed. K. R. M. Short, pp. 113-37. London: Croom Helm, 1981.
Quirk, Lawrence, J. The Great War Films: From The Birth of a Nation to Today. New York: Citadel Press, 1994.
Ray, Sid. “Hunks, History, and Homophobia: Masculinity Politics in Braveheart and Edward II.” Film and History 29 (1999): 22-31.
Rebhorn, Marlette. Screening America: Using Hollywood Films to Teach History. New York: Peter Lang, 1988.
Renov, Michael. Hollywood’s Wartime Women: Representation and Ideology. Studies in Cinema No. 42. Ann Arbor and London: UMI Research Press, 1988.
Rollins, Peter C., ed. Hollywood as Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983.
Rollins, Peter C., and O’Connor, John E., eds. Hollywood’s World War I: Motion Picture Images. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1997.
Roquemore, Joseph. History Goes to the Movies. New York: Doubleday, 1999.
Rosenstone, Robert A. “Reel History with Missing Reels?” Perspectives: American Historical Association Newsletter 37 (November 1999): 19-23.
Rosenstone, Robert A., ed. Revisioning History: Film and the Construction of a New Past. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Rosenstone, Robert A. Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Ross, Alex. “In the Authenticity Game, Only a Few Win.” The New York Times, 31 March 1996, section 2, pp. 15 and 24.
Saving Private Ryan: The Men, The Mission, The Movie. New York: Newmarket Press, 1998.
Schweitzer, Rich. “Born to Kill: S. Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket as Historical Representation of America’s Experience in Vietnam.” Film and History 20 (Sept. 1990): 62-70.
Shaheen, Jack G., ed. Nuclear War Films. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978.
Short, K. R. M. “Feature Films as History.” In Feature Films as History, ed. K. R. M. Short, pp. 16-36. London: Croom Helm, 1981.
Shull, Michael S., and Wilt, David Edward. “Soldiers of the Home Front: The Battle of Production.” In Hollywood War Films, 1937-1945, 258-73. Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland & Co., 1996.
Sorlin, Pierre. “How to Look at an “Historical” Film.” In The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media, ed. Marcia Landy, pp. 25-49. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001.
Suid, Lawrence H. Guts and Glory: Great American War Movies. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1978.
Taylor, Philip M., ed. Britain and the Cinema in the Second World War. London: Macmillan Press, 1988.
Terkel, Studs. “The Good War:” An Oral History of World War Two. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.
Toplin, Robert Brent. History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996.
Toplin, Robert Brent. “Needed: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue.” Perspectives: American Historical Association Newsletter 37 (November 1999): 19, 23-25.
Toplin, Robert Brent. “Plugged in to the Past.” The New York Times, 4 August 1996, Section 2, pages 1 and 26.
Tritle, Lawrence A. “Teaching the Vietnam War with the Greeks.” Perspectives, 36 (Nov. 1998): 1, 36-40.
Vidal, Gore. Screening History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Virilio, Paul. War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception. London and New York: Verso, 1989.
Walkowitz, Daniel J. “Visual History: The Craft of the Historian-Filmmaker.” Public Historian 7 (1985): 53-64.
Wapshott, Nicholas. The Man Between: A Biography of Carol Reed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1990.
Warshow, Robert. “The Anatomy of Falsehood.” In The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre, and Other Aspects of Popular Culture, pp. 107-12. New York: Doubleday and Company, 1964.“The Way Home.” Time 44 (August 7, 1944): 15-16.
Wetta, Frank J., and Curley, Stephen J. Celluloid Wars: A Guide to Film and the American Experience of War. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992. (annotated bibliography)
Wines, Michael. “Why Russia Needs No “Saving Private Ryan.” New York Times, 2 August 1998, 5.
Winkler, Allan M. Life Under a Cloud: American Anxiety about the Bomb. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

FILM ENCYCLOPEDIAS/FILM STUDIES:
Basinger, Jeanine. American Cinema: One Hundred Years of Filmmaking. New York: Rizzoli, 1994.
Basinger, Jeanine. The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.
Bernstein, Richard. “Can Movies Teach History?” The New York Times, 26 November 1989, section 2, pages 1, 18, 19.
Canby, Vincent. “At Close Range: The Human Face of War.” New York Times, 21 January 1990.
Dick, Bernard F. The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1985.
Evans, Alun. Brassey’s Guide to War Films. Washington, D. C.: Brassey’s, 2000.
Fuller, Kathryn Helgesen. “Lessons from the Screen: Film and Video in the Classroom.” Perspectives: American Historical Association Newsletter 37 (April 1999): 45-48.
Gillespie, Susan, ed. Perspectives on Audiovisuals in the Teaching of History. Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 1999.
Grindon, Leger. “Analyzing the Historical Fiction Film.” In Shadows on the Past: Studies in the Historical Fiction Film, pp. 1-26. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.
Harty, Kevin J. The Reel Middle Ages: Films About Medieval Europe. Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., 1999.
Heston, Charlton. The Actor’s Life: Journals 1956-1976. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1976.
Kane, Kathryn. Visions of War: Hollywood Combat Films of World War II. Studies in Cinema No. 9. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1982.
Landy, Marcia, ed. The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001.
O’Brien, Tom. The Screening of America: Movies and Values from Rocky to Rainman. New York: Continuum, 1990.
O’Connell, Libby Haight. “Viewing History: The Pros and Cons of Presenting History on Television.” History News 49 (Sept./Oct. 1994): 14-17.
O’Connor, John E., and Jackson, Martin A., eds. American History/American Film: Interpreting the Hollywood Image. New expanded edition. New York: Continuum, 1988.
Phillips, Gene D. Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema. Rev. ed. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 1999. (Reed, Kubrick, Coppola)
Pronay, Nicholas. “The First Reality: Film Censorship in Liberal England.” In Feature Films as History, ed. K. R. M. Short, pp. 113-37. London: Croom Helm, 1981.
Quirk, Lawrence, J. The Great War Films: From The Birth of a Nation to Today. New York: Citadel Press, 1994.
Renov, Michael. Hollywood’s Wartime Women: Representation and Ideology. Studies in Cinema No. 42. Ann Arbor and London: UMI Research Press, 1988.
Rollins, Peter C., ed. Hollywood as Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983.
Roquemore, Joseph. History Goes to the Movies. New York: Doubleday, 1999.
Rosenstone, Robert A. “Reel History with Missing Reels?” Perspectives: American Historical Association Newsletter 37 (November 1999): 19-23.
Rosenstone, Robert A., ed. Revisioning History: Film and the Construction of a New Past. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Rosenstone, Robert A. Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Ross, Alex. “In the Authenticity Game, Only a Few Win.” The New York Times, 31 March 1996, section 2, pp. 15 and 24.
Short, K. R. M. “Feature Films as History.” In Feature Films as History, ed. K. R. M. Short, pp. 16-36. London: Croom Helm, 1981.
Sorlin, Pierre. “How to Look at an “Historical” Film.” In The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media, ed. Marcia Landy, pp. 25-49. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001.
Suid, Lawrence H. Guts and Glory: Great American War Movies. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1978.
Taylor, Philip M., ed. Britain and the Cinema in the Second World War. London: Macmillan Press, 1988.
Toplin, Robert Brent. History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996.
Toplin, Robert Brent. “Needed: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue.” Perspectives: American Historical Association Newsletter 37 (November 1999): 19, 23-25.
Toplin, Robert Brent. “Plugged in to the Past.” The New York Times, 4 August 1996, Section 2, pages 1 and 26.
Vidal, Gore. Screening History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Virilio, Paul. War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception. London and New York: Verso, 1989.
Walkowitz, Daniel J. “Visual History: The Craft of the Historian-Filmmaker.” Public Historian 7 (1985): 53-64.
Wapshott, Nicholas. The Man Between: A Biography of Carol Reed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1990.
Wetta, Frank J., and Curley, Stephen J. Celluloid Wars: A Guide to Film and the American Experience of War. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992. (annotated bibliography)

RONALD REAGAN AND POWER OF FILM:
Erickson, Paul D. Reagan Speaks. New York and London: New York University Press, 1985. Pp. 4-7.
Rogin, Michael Paul. Ronald Reagan, the Movie, and Other Episodes in Political Demonology. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Pp. 1-11.
Wills, Garry. Reagan’s America: Innocents at Home. New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1987. Pp. 162-70.

SPECIFIC FILMS

WAR LORD:
Heston, Charlton. The Actor’s Life: Journals 1956-1976. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1976.

HENRY V:
Carnes, Mark C., gen. ed. Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995.
Harty, Kevin J. The Reel Middle Ages: Films About Medieval Europe. Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., 1999.
Shakespeare, William. “Henry V.” New York and London: Penguin Putnam Inc., 1999.
Branagh:
Branagh, Kenneth. “Henry V.” In Players of Shakespeare 2, ed. Russell Jackson and Robert Smallwood, pp. 93-105. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Canby, Vincent. “At Close Range: The Human Face of War.” New York Times, 21 January 1990.
Fitter, Chris. “A Tale of Two Branaghs: Henry V, Ideology, and the Mekong Agincourt.” In Shakespeare Left and Right, ed. Ivo Kamps, 259-75. New York and London: Routledge, 1991.
Olivier:
Chapman, James. The British at War: Cinema, State and Propaganda, 1939-1945. London and New York: I.B.Tauris Publishers, 1998.
Nichols, John G. “The Atomic Agincourt: Henry V and the Filmic Making of Postwar Anglo-American Cultural Relations.” Film and History 27 (1997): 88-94.
Olivier, Laurence. “The Making of Henry V.” In Masterworks of the British Cinema, pp. 193-95. London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1990.
Silveria, Dale. Laurence Olivier and the Art of Film Making. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985.

ALEXANDER NEVSKY:
Barna, Yon. Eisenstein. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973.
Fennell, John. The Crisis of Medieval Russia 1200-1304. London and New York: Longman, 1983.
Majeska, George P. “Alexander Nevsky.” In The Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. J. R. Strayer, 12 vols., 9:111. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1982-89.
Zenkovsky, Serge A., ed. Medieval Russia’s Epics, Chronicles, and Tales. New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1963.

BRAVEHEART:
Abramowitz, Rachel. “Dressed to Kilt.” Premiere, May 1995, pp. 74-77.
Dvorak, Ken. “Braveheart: A Distant Hero for a Post-Modernist Audience?” Film and History 25 (1995): 59.
Fyne, Robert. “Braveheart Wins Two Golden Statuettes.” Film and History 25 (1995): 58, 76.
Ewan, Elizabeth. “Review of Braveheart.” American Historical Review 100 (October 1995): 1219-21.
Ray, Sid. “Hunks, History, and Homophobia: Masculinity Politics in Braveheart and Edward II.” Film and History 29 (1999): 22-31.

CIVIL WAR/GETTYSBURG:
Catton, Bruce. Never Call Retreat. The Centennial History of the Civil War, Vol. 3. New York: Doubleday and Company, 1965.
Oates, William C., and Haskell, Frank A. Gettysburg. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.
Jorgensen, C. Peter. “Gettysburg: How a Prize-Winning Novel Became a Motion Picture.” Civil War Times, Nov.-Dec. 1993, pp. 41-49, 92-93, 113.
http://www.ronmaxwell.com/gettysburg.htlm
GLORY:
Canby, Vincent. “At Close Range: The Human Face of War.” New York Times, 21 January 1990.
“A Conversation between Eric Foner and John Sayles.” In Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies, gen. ed. Mark C. Carnes, pp. 11-12, 17, 20-21, 26-28. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995.
Finkelman, Paul. “Review of Glory.” The Journal of American History 77 (December 1990): 1108.
McPherson, James M. “Glory.” In Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies, gen. ed. Mark C. Carnes, pp. 128-31. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995.
Roquemore, Joseph. History Goes to the Movies: A Viewer’s Guide to the Best (and Some of the Worst) Historical Films Ever Made. New York: Doubleday, 1999.
Burchard, Peter. One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw and His Brave Black Regiment. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989.
Duncan, Russell. Where Death and Glory Meet: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999.

EMPIRE AND IMPERIALISM—
BREAKER MORANT:
Carnegie, Margaret, and Shields, Frank. In Search of Breaker Morant: Balladist and Bushveldt Carbineer. Armadale, 1979.
Cutlack, F. M. Breaker Morant: A Horseman Who Made History. Sydney: Ure Smith, 1962.
Davey, Arthur, ed. Breaker Morant and the Bushveldt Carbineers. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd ser., No. 18. Cape Town, 1987.
Denton, Kit. Closed File. Adelaide: Rigby, 1983.
Gardner, Susan. “From Murderer to Martyr: The Legend of ‘Breaker’ Morant.” Critical Arts Monograph, No. 1, July 1981. Johannesburg: Critical Arts Study Group, 1981.

SAND PEBBLES:
Paterson, Thomas G., Clifford, J. Garry, and Hagan, Kenneth J. American Foreign Relations: A History Since 1895, Volume II. 4th ed. Lexington and Toronto: D. C. Heath and Co., 1995. See pages 29-31, 63-65, 168-76.
Fairbank, John K., ed. The Cambridge History of China, Volume 12, Republican China 1912-1949, Part 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pages 128-32, 152-54, 165-77, 284-87, 303-7, 315-21.
Buhite, Russell D. “Nelson Johnson and American Policy Toward China, 1925-1928.” Pacific Historical Review 35 (1966): 451-65.
Brecher, Frank W. “Lawrence of Arabia as History.” Film and History 19 (Dec. 1989): 92-94.

WORLD WAR I—
PATHS OF GLORY/KUBRICK:
Coyle, Wallace. Stanley Kubrick: A Guide to References and Resources. Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1980.
Carnes, Mark C., gen. ed. Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. (“Paths,” “All Quiet”)
Kelly, Andrew. “The brutality of military incompetence: Paths of Glory and King and Country.” In Cinema and the Great War, 162-80. London and New York: Routledge, 1997.
Miller, Gabriel. Screening the Novel: Rediscovered American Fiction in Film. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1980. (“Paths”)
Phillips, Gene D. Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema. Rev. ed. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 1999. (Kubrick)
Eyster, Warren. “On Humphrey Cobb’s Paths of Glory.” In Rediscoveries, ed. David Madden, pp. 134-46.

SERGEANT YORK:
Birdwell, Michael. “’The Devil’s Tool’: Alvin York and Sergeant York.” In Hollywood’s World War I: Motion Picture Images, ed. Peter C. Rollins and John E. O’Connor, 121-41. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1997.
Dibbets, Karel, and Hogenkamp, Bert, eds. Film and the First World War. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1995. (Cultural changes; “Sgt York”)
Leab, Daniel J. “Viewing the War with the Brothers Warner.” In Film and the First World War, eds. Karel Dibbets and Bert Hogenkamp, 223-33. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1995. (“Sgt. York”)
Rebhorn, Marlette. Screening America: Using Hollywood Films to Teach History. New York: Peter Lang, 1988. (“Sgt. York”)
Sergeant York (Making of): “Sergeant York Surrenders,” Time, 1 April 1940, pp. 69-70; and “23 Years After Argonne: Jesse Lasky Brings Life Story of Sergeant York to Screen,” Newsweek, 14 July 1941, pp. 61-62.

OTHER:
Eksteins, Modris. “Film in Context: All Quiet on the Western Front.” History Today 45 (Nov. 1995): 29-34.
Isenberg, Michael T. “The Great War Viewed from the Twenties: The Big Parade (1925).” In American History/American Film: Interpreting the Hollywood Image, ed. John E. O’Connor and Martin A. Jackson, pp. 17-37. New expanded edition. New York: Continuum, 1988.
Kelly, Andrew. “The measure for all anti-war cinema: All Quiet on the Western Front.” In Cinema and the Great War, 43-57. London and New York: Routledge, 1997.
Paris, Michael. “Film in Context: Wings.” History Today 45 (July 1995): 44-50.

WORLD WAR II READINGS:
Carnes, Mark C., gen. ed. Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. (“Tora!” “Longest Day”)

Abramowitz, Rachel. “Welcome to the Jungle.” Premiere, January 1999, 78-85, 94-95. (“Thin Red Line”)
Adams, Michael C. C. The Best War Ever: America and World War II. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Aldgate, Tony. “Ideological Consensus in British Feature Films, 1935-1947.” In Feature Films as History, ed. K. R. M. Short, pp. 94-112. London: Croom Helm, 1981.
Ambrose, Stephen E. Americans at War. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.
Basinger, Jeanine. “Translating War: The Combat Film Genre and Saving Private Ryan.” Perspectives: American Historical Association Newsletter 36 (October 1998): 1, 43-47.
Basinger, Jeanine. The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.
Behlmer, ed. Memo from David O. Selznick. New York: Viking Press, 1972. (“Since”)
Briggs, Susan. The Home Front: War Years in Britain 1939-1945. New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., 1975.
Brokaw, Tom. The Greatest Generation. New York: Random House, 1998.
Capa, Robert. Slightly Out of Focus. New York: The Modern Library, 1999.
Chambers II, John Whiteclay and Culbeat, David. World War II: Film and History. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Ditmann, Laurent. “Made You Look: Towards a Critical Evaluation of Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan.” Film and History 28 (1998): 64-70.
Doherty, Thomas. Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
Erenberg, Lewis A., and Hirsch, Susan E., eds. The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness During World War II. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Goldman, William. “The Best Medicine: Saving Private Ryan.” Premiere, April 1999, 66-69.
Hanson, Victor Davis. “The Third Army: Patton’s Race into Germany.” In The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny, 263-403. New York: The Free Press, 1999.
Hoppenstand, Gary; Barrows, Floyd; and Lunde, Eric. “Bringing the War Home: William Wyler and World War II.” Film and History 27 (1997): 108-18. (“Mrs. Miniver”)
“An Internet Discussion of Saving Private Ryan.” Film and History 28 (1998): 72-81.
Jackson, Kenneth. “The Thin Red Line: Not Enough History.” Perspectives: American Historical Association Newsletter 37 (April 1999): 25-28.
Koppes, Clayton R. “Hollywood and the Politics of Representation: Women, Workers, and African Americans in World War II Movies.” In The Home-Front War: World War II and American Society, eds. Kenneth Paul O’Brien and Lynn Hudson Parsons, pp. 25-40. Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 1995.
Landon, Phil. “Realism, Genre, and Saving Private Ryan.” Film and History 28 (1998): 58-62.
Lopate, Phillip. “Above the Battle, Musing on the Profundities.” New York Times 17 January 1999. (“Thin Red Line”)
Lyman, Rick. “True to the Timeless Fact that War Is Hell.” New York Times, 19 July 1998, 11 and 18-19. (“Saving”)
Madsen, Axel. William Wyler. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1973. (“Mrs. Miniver” “Memphis Belle” “Thunderbolt”)
Maslin, Janet. “By Being Honest About Violence, Spielberg Wins.” New York Times, 2 August 1998, 9, 12.
McDonald, William. “Long-Delayed Lessons About Fathers and a War.” New York Times, 26 July 1998,1, 16. (“Longest,” “Saving”)
Menand, Louis. “Jerry Don’t Surf [review of “Saving Private Ryan”).” New York Review of Books, 24 Sept. 1998, 7-8.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. London: Virago Press, 1999.
O’Brien, Kenneth Paul, and Parsons, Lynn Hudson. The Home-Front War: World War II and American Society. Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 1995.
Rebhorn, Marlette. Screening America: Using Hollywood Films to Teach History. New York: Peter Lang, 1988. (“Casablanca”)
Saving Private Ryan: The Men, The Mission, The Movie. New York: Newmarket Press, 1998.
Shull, Michael S., and Wilt, David Edward. “Soldiers of the Home Front: The Battle of Production.” In Hollywood War Films, 1937-1945, 258-73. Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland & Co., 1996.
Terkel, Studs. “The Good War:” An Oral History of World War Two. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.
Wines, Michael. “Why Russia Needs No “Saving Private Ryan.” New York Times, 2 August 1998, 5.

W March 28, Tora, Tora, Tora/ no complementary film due to spring break
M 12, Discussion of film, plus in-class showing of “December 7th”

W 14, Mrs. Miniver/ Hope and Glory
M 19, Discussion of films

W 21, Patton/ Sgt. York
M 26, Discussion of films

W 28, Saving Private Ryan/ The Longest Day
M April 2, Discussion of films

POST WAR READINGS:
Goulden, Joseph C. The Best Years 1945-1950. New York: Atheneum, 1976.
Greene, Graham. The Third Man and The Fallen Idol. London: Penguin Books, 1977.
Hoppenstand, Gary, Barrows, Floyd, and Lunde, Eric. “Bringing the War Home: William Wyler and World War II.” Film and History 27 (1997): 108-18. (“Best Years”)
Jackson, Martin A. “The Uncertain Peace: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).” In American History/American Film: Interpreting the Hollywood Image, ed. John E. O’Connor and Martin A. Jackson, pp. 147-65. New expanded edition. New York: Continuum, 1988.
Kracauer, Siegfried. “Those Movies with a Message.” Harper’s Magazine, 196 (June 1948): 567-72. (“Best Years”)
Madsen, Axel. William Wyler. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1973. (“Best Years”)
Phillips, Gene D. Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema. Rev. ed. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 1999. (Reed)
Wapshott, Nicholas. The Man Between: A Biography of Carol Reed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1990.
Warshow, Robert. “The Anatomy of Falsehood.” In The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre, and Other Aspects of Popular Culture, pp. 107-12. New York: Doubleday and Company, 1964. (“Best Years”)
“The Way Home.” Time 44 (August 7, 1944): 15-16. (“Best Years”)

W 4, The Third Man/ The Best Years of Our Lives
M 9, Discussion of films

ATOMIC BOMB/COLD WAR BOOKS:
Carnes, Mark C., gen. ed. Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. (“Fat Man,” “Dr. S.”)

Boyer, Paul. By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
Coyle, Wallace. Stanley Kubrick: A Guide to References and Resources. Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1980.
Didion, Joan. “I Can’t Get that Monster out of My Mind.” In Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 152-59. New York: Washington Square Press, 1968.
Evans, Joyce A. Celluloid Mushroom Clouds: Hollywood and the Atomic Bomb. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1998.
Henriksen, Margot A. Dr. Strangelove’s America: Society and Culture in the Atomic Age. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1997.
Maier, Charles S., and Sherwin, Martin J. “The Cold War, the Atomic Bomb, and the “Revisionists.” In The Shaping of Twentieth-Century America: Interpretive Essays, 2nd ed., ed. Richard M. Abrams and Lawrence W. Levine, pp. 571-608. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1971.
Maland, Charles. “Dr. Strangelove (1964): Nightmare Comedy and the Ideology of Liberal Consensus.” In Hollywood as Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context, ed. Peter C. Rollins, 191-210. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983.
Perrine, Toni A. Film and the Nuclear Age: Representing Cultural Anxiety. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998.
Rebhorn, Marlette. Screening America: Using Hollywood Films to Teach History. New York: Peter Lang, 1988. (“Dr.S.”)
Shaheen, Jack G., ed. Nuclear War Films. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978.
Suid, Lawrence. “The Pentagon and Hollywood: Dr. Strangelove… (1964).” In American History/American Film: Interpreting the Hollywood Image, ed. John E. O’Connor and Martin A. Jackson, pp. 219-35. New expanded edition. New York: Continuum, 1988.
Winkler, Allan M. Life Under a Cloud: American Anxiety about the Bomb. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

W April 11, In-class showing of “Atomic Café”
M 16, Easter break
W 18, Dr. Strangelove/ Fail Safe
M 23, Discussion of films

VIETNAM:
Carnes, Mark C., gen. ed. Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. (“Apocalypse”)
Davis, Jack E. “New Left, Revisionist, In-Your-Face History: Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July Experience.” Film and History 28 (1998): 6-17.
Hagen, William M. “Apocalypse Now (1979): Joseph Conrad and the Television War.” In Hollywood as Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context, ed. Peter C. Rollins, 230-45. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983.
Lichty, Lawrence W., and Carroll, Raymond L. “Fragments of War: Platoon (1986).” In American History/American Film: Interpreting the Hollywood Image, ed. John E. O’Connor and Martin A. Jackson, pp. 273-87. New expanded edition. New York: Continuum, 1988.
Phillips, Gene D. Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema. Rev. ed. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 1999. (Coppola)
Schweitzer, Rich. “Born to Kill: S. Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket as Historical Representation of America’s Experience in Vietnam.” Film and History 20 (Sept. 1990): 62-70.
Taylor, Philip. “Film in Context: The Green Berets.” History Today 45 (March 1995): 21-25.
Tritle, Lawrence A. “Teaching the Vietnam War with the Greeks.” Perspectives, 36 (Nov. 1998): 1, 36-40.

W April 25, Apocalypse Now/ The Green Berets
M 30, Discussion of films
TO BE FOUND:
James Wolcott, “Tanks for the Memories,” Vanity Fair, August 1998, 70-76, review of “Saving Pvt. Ryan”
AP2 .V3

Steve Mintz and Randy Roberts, eds., Hollywood’s America: U.S. History through Its Films (1993).
Michael Marsden, John G. Nachbar, and Sam L. Gregg Jr., Movies as Artifacts: Cultural Criticism of Popular Film (Chicago: Nelson Hall, 1982).
PN1993.5 .U6 M67 1982
Robert Sklar, Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies (New York: Random House, 1975).
PN1993.5 .U6 S53 1994 (due 2/10)
Robert Burgoyne, Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History (U of Minnesota Press, 1997).
PN1995.9 .H5 B87 1997
Pierre Sorlin, The Film in History: Restaging the Past (Totowa NJ, Barnes and Noble 1980).
PN1995.2 .S6 1980b Depos.

Film History articles:
Stephen Bottomore, “Out of this World: Theory, Fact and Film,” 1994 vol. 6, 7-25.
Michele Lagny, “Film History or History Expropriated?” 1995 vol. 6, 26-44.
Theatre Collection, HTC-LC PN1993 .F56

Journal of American Studies (G.B.)
Alasdair Spark, “The Soldier at the Heart of the War: The Myth of the Green Beret,” 1984, vol. 18, 29-48.
Dinand E151.J6

Journal of American Culture
R. S. Denisoff, “Fighting Prophecy with Napalm: The Ballad of the Green Berets,” 1990 vol. 13 81-93.
Dinand E169.1 +J7