Beschreibung
Films and novels are media of historical memories, fantasies, mystification and propaganda. The essays herein discuss how wars, from WWI through the Post-Cold War, are represented in selected films and novels and how these wars have been reinterpreted over time.
Autorenportrait
Richard Mason is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. His research interests are the area of the Cold War, with particular reference to the United States’ policy toward Asia.
Jarosław Suchoples is Associate Professor at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, where he specialized in European studies, transnational late modern history and international relations.
Inhalt
Contents: Richard Mason/Jarosław Suchoples:
Introduction – Eberhard Demm:
Barbusse and His
: The Last Card of French War Propaganda – Jarosław Suchoples:
The Beginning of World War II in Polish Narrative Films: From the Collapse of the Communist System to the Present (1989–2013) – Torsten Schaar/Nicole Ogasa:
The Holocaust in Selected European Feature Films, 2010–2013 – Torsten Schaar/Bernd Schäfer/Raimond Selke:
World War II in Europe in Selected European Feature Films, 2010–2013 – Richard Mason/Rashila Haji Ramli: Images of the Asia-Pacific War in Selected Feature Films – Zawiah Yahya:
Rising Sun, Setting Sun: British and Malayan Perspectives on the Japanese Occupation of Malaya in Fiction – Paul Cornelius: Hollywood and Vietnam: The Fading Vietnam War Narrative – Roy Anthony Rogers:
Political Propaganda in its Subtleties in
Movies.
