War on the Silver Screen

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War on the Silver Screen

• Thaddeus Sonnenfeld,
• Jacob Kestner,
• John Rechtoris

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Thesis

• World War II cinema, regardless of ideological
  boundaries, expressed common themes.

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ALL HANDS ON DECK!!!
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Learning to Adjust
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Facing Your Fears
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Oh the Humanity!
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Friends and Foes
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Great Sacrifice

• Underground (1941)

Battleground (1949)
Destiny of a Man (1959)
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Grave for the Fireflies (1988)

• Invisible Agent
• (1942)

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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
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Fight for the Greater Good
Super Rabbit 1943

• Underground (1941)

This is the Voice of Freedom. We will tell you
what the government does not want you to hear.
Kurt Franken
Battleground (1949)
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Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)

• Invisible Agent
• (1943)

So, what are you a Nazi? Thats right! If you
dont help me, then youre helping the Nazis.
-Kitty
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The Third Reich National Unity and the Nazi Party
The Party is Hitler - and Hitler is Germany just
as Germany is Hitler! -- Rudolf Hess, 1934
Nazi Party Congress
Members of the Labor Service pledge before Hitler
to support Germany despite their different
origins.
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fthewill.htm
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National Unity in Democracies
Theres only one side England! Kitty,
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
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rlock_holmes_and_the_voice_.html
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Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)
The Best Years of Our Live (1946)
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The Soviet Union and War Patriotism
He would have been a fine man... but we remember
him just as a soldier- a Russian soldier. -
Ballad of a Soldier
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Alyosha, like most soldiers in the Soviet Army
during World War II, comes from a village in the
countryside.
Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
Destiny of a Man (1959)
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Traitors in Their Midst
Tomorrow, when they ask for the Communists,
officers, and Jews, do not try to hide. I will
point you out to them. - Destiny of a Man
Loose lips sink ships. Richard Maltin,
Bugs Daffy Wartime Cartoons
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In Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
(1942), a Nazi radio station broadcasts from
inside England
Hitler from Triumph of the Will (1935) giving a
speech in which he warns against subversives in
the Party
In Draftee Daffy (1944), cartoon icon Daffy Duck
gradually Becomes the villain of the of the show
as he tries to evade the draft.
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Post War Japan
Akira (1988)
Naussica and the Valley of the Wind (1984)
The mushroom cloud rover Nagasaki after the
dropping of Fat Man.

• The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima after the
  dropping of Little Boy.

A Giant Guardian?! You mean, the ones that
burned the world in the Seven Days of Fire...?!
-Mito
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Questions?