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The Fatal Alliance : A Century of War on Film, eAudiobook MP3 eaudioBook

The Fatal Alliance : A Century of War on Film eAudiobook MP3

Narrated by David Thomson

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"A marvelous bombshell of a book, by one of our most formidably knowledgeable and insightful writers on film, it is filled with surprises and witty asides.Though Thomson is quick to pounce on the hypocrisies and historical omissions of some of these war movies, there is nothing compromised about his own daredevil judgments.We are in the hands of a master critic/essayist."-Phillip Lopate

From one of the greatest living writers on film, a magisterial look at a century of battle depicted on screen, and a meditation on the twisted relationship between war and the movies.

InThe Fatal Alliance the acclaimed film critic David Thomson offers us one of his most provocative books yet-a rich,arresting, and troubling study of that most beloved genre: the war movie. It is not a standard history or survey of war films, although Thomson turns his typically piercing eye to many favorites-fromAll Quiet on the Western FronttoThe Bridge on the River KwaitoSaving Private Ryan.ButThe Fatal Alliancedoes much more, exploringhow war and cinema in the twentiethcentury became inextricably linked. Movies had only begun to exist by the beginning of World War I, yet in less than a century, had transformed civilian experience of war-and history itself-for millions around the globe. This reality is the moral conundrum at the heart of Thomson's book. War movies bring both prestige and are so often box office blockbusters; but is there something problematic at how much moviegoers enjoy depictions of violence on a grand scale, such asApocalypse Now, Black Hawk Down, or evenStar Wars? And what does this truth say about us, our culture, and our changing sense of warfare and the past?

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