Koppes & Black, Hollywood Goes To War - How Politics, Profits, And Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies

Abstract

We, and especially our students, are living in an increasingly visual age. Film and television, entertainment videos and those for instruction, video games, computer displays, and virtual reality simulations are almost a natural part of our high-tech daily lives in this last decade of the twentieth century. Naively, we have accepted this mediation of our existence without any real preparation or critical evaluation of its growing impact. It has become a significant aspect of our evolution into post-modernism. Yet, we often look without seeing. watch without comprehending. and, consequently, react without thinking.