The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre

by Jeanine Basinger

Book Overview

One of America's most renowned film scholars, Jeanine Basinger, offers a revealing, perceptive and highly readable look at the combat film. Discussing over 1,000 movies, Basinger covers in-depth the key examples of the genre and uses them to define the meaning of genre itself. From Bataan to Battleground to The Dirty Dozen to Saving Private Ryan, the book traces the evolution of the combat genre, as its recurring characters, plots and events are used...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231059531
• ISBN13: 9780231059534
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 373 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.