Examines how Hollywood changed World War II, and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the prism of five film directors caught up in the war: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens.
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Examines how Hollywood changed World War II, and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the prism of five film directors caught up in the war: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens.
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Near fine in near fine jacket. Size: 9x6x2; NOT an ex library book. 511 pages including the index. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is not clipped.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. [12], 511, [3] p. Illustrations, black & white. Note on Sources. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. Mark Harris is an American journalist and author. He is best known as writer of the book Pictures at a Revolution, and as an executive editor and columnist for Entertainment Weekly. Harris graduated from Yale University in 1985. Harris is a former executive editor at Entertainment Weekly. He has also written for the New York Times, Fortune, the Guardian, and Slate. In July 2012, Harris wrote the magazine's cover story on coming out in Hollywood. In February 2014, Harris published Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War. The work is an examination of five U.S. film directors John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, George Stevens and their frontline work during the Second World War. Examines how Hollywood changed World War II, and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the prism of five film directors caught up in the war: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens. The book was well received. Booklist wrote, "It's hardly news that the movies affect and are affected by the broader canvas of popular culture and world history, but Harris perhaps more successfully than any other writer, past or present manages to find in that symbiotic relationship the stuff of great stories, " calling the book, "narrative nonfiction that is as gloriously readable as it is unfailingly informative." In 2008, Harris published Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood, an examination of how the American film industry changed with the 1960s.
I have read a great deal about World War 11 but not about the influence the American movie industry had on the American public's understanding of the European and Pacific campaigns. Mr. Harris, who was recently selected to write the biography of Mike Nichols, fills each paragraph with interesting facts and insights. I started reading it a few days ago and look forward to finishing it on vacation next week.