Documentary Poster Collection - W. W. II.
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File Size : 50,96 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Posters, American
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File Size : 50,96 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Posters, American
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Author : William L. Bird
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 23,20 MB
Release : 1998-06
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781568981406
The poster - inexpensive, colorful, and immediate - was an ideal medium for delivering messages about Americans' duties on the home front during World War II. Design for Victory presents more than 150 of these stunning images - many never reproduced since their first issue - culled from the collections of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. William L. Bird, Jr. and Harry R. Rubenstein delve beneath the surface of these colorful graphics, telling the stories behind their production and revealing how posters fulfilled the goals and needs of their creators. The authors describe the history of how specific posters were conceived and received, focusing on the workings of the wartime advertising profession and demonstrating how posters often reflected uneasy relations between labor and management.
Author : Sean Price
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,59 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781410931146
Examines various aspects of World War II, focusing on how the U.S. and other countries used posters to encourage support of the war effort.
Author : David Pollack
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2016-12-28
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780764352461
This book is a visual survey of posters printed by the United States, the Allies, and the Axis, and offers an overview of the various categories of propaganda posters created in support of the war effort: recruiting, conservation, careless talk/anti-espionage, bond/fundraising, morale, and more. With posters from all combatants, here is a look at propaganda used as a tool used by all parties in the conflict and how similar themes crossed national borders.
Author : Bruce Hershenson
Publisher : Bruce Hershenson
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,65 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781887893404
This collection contains 297 full-colour illustrations spread over 84 pages. This volume is 50% devoted to the films made about World War II, and the other 50% is devoted to all other wars, from ancient wars to the Gulf War. Included are films that take place during battles, as well as other aspects of war such as prisoners of war, espionage, the home front, etc.
Author : Philip Martin McCaulay
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,56 MB
Release : 2010-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0557316316
World War II Posters is a collection of 245 original posters from WWII related to savings and investment, productivity and invention, service and support, environmentalism and conservation, security and trust, freedom and sacrifice, friends and allies, health and safety, and victory gardens. The federal government produced and distributed informational materials to attract and encourage public support for the money, material resources, labor, and personal sacrifices needed to mount a successful war effort. The Office of War Information distributed posters on a national scale to post offices, schools, and railroad stations. Defense Councils in each community were instructed to form a committee to regularly receive posters. The committee determined the number needed by the community, selected posting locations, and set up a route and distribution system. New posters were distributed at the beginning of each month.
Author : Edwin E. Poole
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,31 MB
Release : 2013-05-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476605025
Most people view movie posters as an expensive form of expendable advertising. Others, however, see the posters as valuable art. If you are in the latter category, this is the work for you. All facets of collecting movie posters are covered in this guide book. The history of the movie poster is first presented, including a look at how the early studios influenced the development of posters. Next is a brief look at the world of movie art collecting. This is followed by a reference section that provides comprehensive explanations of the most commonly used terms in the field. Getting your collection started is the next topic, giving novice and more experienced collectors information on publications and materials available, where to go to purchase posters, where to go for help and other items. A concluding section details the proper care and handling of movie art materials, along with methods for restoration.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,73 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Political posters, American
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Author : Philip Martin McCaulay
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 34,22 MB
Release : 2011
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ISBN : 0557312698
Author : John Whiteclay Chambers II
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 15,97 MB
Release : 1996-10-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0199880115
The immediacy and perceived truth of the visual image, as well as film and television's ability to propel viewers back into the past, place the genre of the historical film in a special category. War films--including antiwar films--have established the prevailing public image of war in the twentieth century. For American audiences, the dominant image of trench warfare in World War I has been provided by feature films such as All Quiet on the Western Front and Paths of Glory. The image of combat in the Second World War has been shaped by films like Sands of Iwo Jima and The Longest Day. And despite claims for the alleged impact of widespread television coverage of the Vietnam War, it is actually films such as Apocalypse Now and Platoon which have provided the most powerful images of what is seen as the "reality" of that much disputed conflict. But to what degree does history written "with lightning," as Woodrow Wilson allegedly said, represent the reality of the past? To what extent is visual history an oversimplification, or even a distortion of the past? Exploring the relationship between moving images and the society and culture in which they were produced and received, World War II, Film, and History addresses the power these images have had in determining our perception and memories of war. Examining how the public memory of war in the twentieth century has often been created more by a manufactured past than a remembered one, a leading group of historians discusses films dating from the early 1930s through the early 1990s, created by filmmakers the world over, from the United States and Germany to Japan and the former Soviet Union. For example, Freda Freiberg explains how the inter-racial melodramatic Japanese feature film China Nights, in which a manly and protective Japanese naval officer falls in love with a beautiful young Chinese street waif and molds her into a cultured, submissive wife, proved enormously popular with wartime Japanese and helped justify the invasion of China in the minds of many Japanese viewers. Peter Paret assesses the historical accuracy of Kolberg as a depiction of an unsuccessful siege of that German city by a French Army in 1807, and explores how the film, released by Hitler's regime in January 1945, explicitly called for civilian sacrifice and last-ditch resistance. Stephen Ambrose contrasts what we know about the historical reality of the Allied D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, with the 1962 release of The Longest Day, in which the major climactic moment in the film never happened at Normandy. Alice Kessler-Harris examines The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, a 1982 film documentary about women defense workers on the American home front in World War II, emphasizing the degree to which the documentary's engaging main characters and its message of the need for fair and equal treatment for women resonates with many contemporary viewers. And Clement Alexander Price contrasts Men of Bronze, William Miles's fine documentary about black American soldiers who fought in France in World War I, with Liberators, the controversial documentary by Miles and Nina Rosenblum which incorrectly claimed that African-American troops liberated Holocaust survivors at Dachau in World War II. In today's visually-oriented world, powerful images, even images of images, are circulated in an eternal cycle, gaining increased acceptance through repetition. History becomes an endless loop, in which repeated images validate and reconfirm each other. Based on archival materials, many of which have become only recently available, World War II, Film, and History offers an informative and a disturbing look at the complex relationship between national myths and filmic memory, as well as the dangers of visual images being transformed into "reality."