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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Nemerov, Alexander.     Subjects     World War, 1939-1945 -- Photography.     Historiography and photography.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war.     Art and history.     Collective memory.     Nineteen forties.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Nemerov, Alexander.       by title:      Wartime kiss : visio...         MARC Display

Wartime kiss : visions of the moment in the 1940s / Alexander Nemerov. by Nemerov, Alexander. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2013. Subjects World War, 1939-1945 -- Photography.   Historiography and photography.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war.   Art and history.   Collective memory.   Nineteen forties. ISBN:  9780691145785 (hardback) : 0691145784 (hardback) Series:  Princeton essays on the arts. Description:  175 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Wartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World War II and the later 1940s. Starting with a powerful reinterpretation of one of the most famous photos of all time, Alfred Eisenstaedt's image of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day, Alexander Nemerov goes on to examine an idiosyncratic collection of mostly obscure or unknown images and movie episodes--from a photo of Jimmy Stewart and Olivia de Havilland lying on a picnic blanket in the Santa Barbara hills to scenes from such films as Twelve O'Clock High and Hold Back the Dawn. Erotically charged and bearing traces of trauma even when they seem far removed from the war, these photos and scenes seem to hold out the promise of a palpable and emotional connection to those years. Through a series of fascinating stories, Nemerov reveals the surprising background of these bits of film and discovers unexpected connections between the war and Hollywood, from an obsession with aviation to Anne Frank's love of the movies. Beautifully written and illustrated, Wartime Kiss vividly evokes a world in which Margaret Bourke-White could follow a heroic assignment photographing a B-17 bombing mission over Tunis with a job in Hollywood documenting the filming of a war movie. Ultimately this is a book about history as a sensuous experience, a work as mysterious, indescribable, and affecting as a novel by W. G. Sebald"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 940.5373 Ne Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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