Repicturing the Second World War

1. Introduction: Film, Television, and the Second World War — The First Fifty Years
Michael Paris

2. ‘Rose-tinted Blighty’: Gender and Genre in Land Girls
Wendy Webster

3. Policing the People’s War: Foyle’s War and British Television Drama
James Chapman

4. An Autobiographical Allegory: Franco Zeffirelli’s Tea With Mussolini
Robert W. Matson

5. Soccer with the Dead: Mediterraneo, the Legacy of Neorealismo, and the Myth of Italiani Brava Gente
Saverio Giovacchini

6. Safe Conduct: A Tribute to The French Film Industry During the Second World War
Diane Afoumado

7. Aimée, Jaguar and Sophie Scholl: Women on the German Home Front
Helen Jones

8. ‘This Film is based on a True Story’: The Tuskegee Airmen
S. P. Mackenzie

9. ‘What Happened was Wrong’: Come See the Paradise and the Japanese-American Experience in the Second World War
Michael Paris

10. Commissioning Mass Murder: Conspiracy and History at the Wannsee Conference
Simone Gigliotti

11. Laughing Against Horror: Life is Beautiful and Train of Life
Pierre Sorlin

12. Enemy at the Gates as a ‘Soviet’ War Film
Denise J. Youngblood

13. Bomber Harris: Raking Through the Ashes of the Strategic Air Campaign Against Germany
Mark Connelly

14. Realism, Historical Truth and the War Film: The Case of Saving Private Ryan
Toby Haggith

15. Downfall and Other Endings: German Film and Hitler’s War after Sixty Years
Tony Barta

Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociology of Culture, Film History, Film and Television Studies, Social History, History of World War II and the Holocaust