Name: Dreams of Flight: "The Great Escape" in American Film and Culture (en Inglés)
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Author: Polan, Dana
ISBN: 9780520379305

portada Dreams of Flight: "The Great Escape" in American Film and Culture (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Dana Polan

Editorial

University of California Press

Año

2021

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

288

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.6 x 13.7 x 2.3 cm

Peso

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9780520379305

N° edición

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Historia del cine
Estilos y géneros de cine
Histórico
Historia militar

Dreams of Flight: "The Great Escape" in American Film and Culture (en Inglés)

Dana Polan (Autor) · University of California Press · Tapa Blanda

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The first full-length study of the iconic 1960s film The Great Escape and its place in Hollywood and American history.Escaped POW Virgil Hilts (Steve McQueen) on a stolen motorcycle jumps an imposing barbed wire fence--caught on film, the act and its aftermath have become an unforgettable symbol of triumph as well as defeat for 1960s America. Combining production and reception history with close reading, Dreams of Flight offers the first full-length study of The Great Escape, the classic film based on a true story of Allied prisoners who hatched an audacious plan to divert and thwart the Wehrmacht and escape into the nearby countryside. Through breezy prose and pithy analysis, Dana Polan centers The Great Escape within American cultural and intellectual history, drawing a vivid picture of the country in the 1960s. We see a nation grappling with its own military history, a society undergoing significant shifts in its culture and identity, and a film industry in transition from Old Hollywood's big-budget runaway studio films to the slow interior cinema of New Hollywood. Dreams of Flight combines this context with fan anecdotes and a close study of filmic style to bring readers into the film and trace its wide-reaching influence. Polan examines the production history, including prior adaptations in radio and television of celebrated author Paul Brickhill's original nonfiction book about the escape, and he compares the cinematic fiction to the real events of the escape in 1944. Dreams of Flight also traces the afterlife of The Great Escape in the many subsequent movies, TV commercials, and cartoons that reference it, whether reverentially or with humor.