Finlander
Finlander

Author: Gail Ylitalo

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2004-06-01

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1411610539

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It is 1916. Russia and Finland are playing their age-old game of "cat and mouse"-each Finnish village has its own rules and social mores-life is harsh and uncompromising-and most of the inhabitants will hang onto their birthright until the bitter end unless their choice is taken away. This is the harsh reality of Kaarlo Heitala's world but he, through fate, is forced to leave his beloved country and begin a new life in America during one of the bloodiest times in world history. Finlander becomes an odyssey of man's place in life's continuum and how one man can touch the lives of many and prove that each individual truly does have a story-a story of inescapable courage and determination.

LIFE
LIFE

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1965-11-05

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13:

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LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Report
Report

Author: Ontario. Dept. of Mines

Publisher:

Published: 1913

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13:

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Report
Report

Author: Ontario. Department of Mines

Publisher:

Published: 1913

Total Pages: 310

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Guts and Glory
Guts and Glory

Author: Lawrence H. Suid

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2015-01-13

Total Pages: 770

ISBN-13: 0813158087

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Guts and Glory: The Making of the American Military Image in Film is the definitive study of the symbiotic relationship between the film industry and the United States armed services. Since the first edition was published nearly two decades ago, the nation has experienced several wars, both on the battlefield and in movie theatres and living rooms at home. Now, author Lawrence Suid has extensively revised and expanded his classic history of the mutual exploitation of the film industry and the military, exploring how Hollywood has reflected and effected changes in America's image of its armed services. He offers in-depth looks at such classic films as Wings, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, The Longest Day, Patton, Top Gun, An Officer and a Gentleman, and Saving Private Ryan, as well as the controversial war movies The Green Berets, M*A*S*H, the Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and Born on the Fourth of July.

Movies as History
Movies as History

Author: Marie L. Aquila

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-04-22

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1476614652

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Popular movies can enhance the study of history. A dominant form of entertainment throughout the 20th century, they can serve as nontraditional primary sources and offer remarkable opportunities to observe attitudes about social concerns, gender or racial issues, politics, and historical events that were current when the movies were made. This book is a topical guide for educators, providing detailed analysis of 35 movies, followed by discussion questions that will help students interpret how each movie's content and themes reflect the times when it was made. The book covers four main topics: the Great Depression, World War II, the early years of the Cold War, and the changing expectations and images of women in movies from 1930 to 1970. An historical overview chronicles how each topic was treated in movies from that time period. The movies should have wide appeal in grades 7 through 12 and can help students learn to think more critically about the images and messages that appear in popular media today.

Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove
Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove

Author: Sean M. Maloney

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2020-07-01

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1640123512

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King of the Cold War crisis film, Dr. Strangelove became a cultural touchstone from the moment of its release in 1964. The duck-and-cover generation saw it as a satire on nuclear issues and Cold War thinking. Subsequent generations, removed from the film’s historical moment, came to view it as a quasi-documentary about an unfathomable secret world. Sean M. Maloney uses Dr. Strangelove and other genre classics like Fail Safe and The Bedford Incident to investigate a curious pop cultural contradiction. Nuclear crisis films repeatedly portrayed the failures of the Cold War’s deterrent system. Yet the system worked. What does this inconsistency tell us about the genre? What does it tell us about the deterrent system, for that matter? Blending film analysis with Cold War history, Maloney looks at how the celluloid crises stack up against reality—or at least as much of reality as we can reconstruct from these films with confidence. The result is a daring intellectual foray that casts new light on Dr. Strangelove, one of the Cold War era’s defining films.