Images of Women on the Home Front

ISBN-13: 9783639122244 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 84 str.

Carla Wight Intza

Opis

Six months after the Japanese attack on PearlHarbor-in June of 1942-President Franklin DelanoRoosevelt formed the Office of War Information byExecutive Order, ostensibly to educate the Americanpublic on war activity. That same month, OWIdeveloped the Government Information Manual for theMotion Picture Industry. The fifth "theme" of thismoviemaking guide was "The Home Front." Here, in abifurcated study, the author draws on Manualdirectives and relevant contributions from majorHollywood sources to determine whether "propaganda"charges are upheld in the film products themselves.Films analyzed are Selznicks quintessential SinceYou Went Away (1944) starring Claudette Colbert,Tender Comrade (1943) with Ginger Rogers, and Pin UpGirl (1944) starring Betty Grable. For fans ofclassical Hollywood, as well as those wanting acloser look at historical issues of propaganda andcollectivism, this book provides an entertaining yetprovocative behind-the-scenes analysis of a countryat war-showing how the U.S. federal government andHollywood collaborated in creating very specific filmimages of women on the World War II home front.

O autorze

Carla Wight Intza has studied theatre both in the United Kingdom
and the United States. She is currently a doctoral fellow at
Regent University, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in Communication
with an emphasis in classical film and theatre.