Five Came Back - A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War

Author(s): Mark Harris

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Before the Second World War the Hollywood box office was booming, but the business was accused of being too foreign, too Jewish, too 'un-American'. Then the war changed everything. With Pearl Harbor came the opportunity for Hollywood to prove its critics wrong. America's most legendary directors played a huge role in the war effort: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens. Between them they shaped the public perception of almost every major moment of the war. With characteristic insight and expert knowledge Harris tells the untold story of how Hollywood changed World War II, and how World War II changed Hollywood.

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A fascinating and lively history of Hollywood and WWII

Mark Harris is the author of Scenes From A Revolution: The Birth of the New Hollywood, which was a New York Times notable book of the year and was named one of the ten best non-fiction books of the decade by Salon. An editor-at-large for Entertainment Weekly, a columnist for Grantland and a contributing editor for New York Magazine, he has written about pop culture and film history for many other publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, and GQ. A graduate of Yale University, he lives in New York City with his husband, Tony Kushner.

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  • : 9781847678560
  • : Canongate Books
  • : Canongate Books
  • : 0.58
  • : 01 February 2015
  • : 21.4cm x 13.5cms
  • : 01 February 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Mark Harris
  • : Paperback
  • : Main ed
  • : English
  • : 791.43097309044
  • : 560