Celluloid Wars

This easy-to-use guide explores the relationships between film images and the experience of war showing how films influence war-time behavior and how wars influence films. This unique reference combines essays on the aesthetic and historical aspects of war films with classifications and discussions of films about different wars a filmography arranged alphabetically with annotations a bibliography of books and articles dealing with war films a general guide for film study along with separate indices to film titles filmmakers and subjects.This is both a research guide and text for serious scholars of military history and American popular culture and an attractive reader for history buffs and for a general audience.