Books - History - Gender, War & Film: Europe 1648-1945 - LibGuides at Montana State University Billings

Print Books

Here's a sampling of print books owned by the MSUB Library. If you need a book that is not owned by the Library, you can submit a request through Interlibrary Loan.

Writing Gender History by Laura Lee Downs; Stefan Berger (Contribution by); Heiko Feldner (Contribution by); Kevin Passmore (Contribution by)
Call Number: HQ1154.D69 2010
ISBN: 9780340975169
Writing Gender History explores the evolution of historical writing about women and gender from the 1930s until the early twenty-first century. With chapters on the history of Europe, the USA, colonial India and Africa, the discussion moves from women's history to gender history, and then to poststructuralist challenges to that history.
American Militarism and Anti-Militarism in Popular Media, 1945-1970 by Lisa M. Mundey
Call Number: P96.W352U5565 2012
ISBN: 9780786466504
This study explores military images in television, film, and comic books from 1945 to 1970 to understand how popular culture made it possible for a public to embrace more militaristic national security policies yet continue to perceive themselves as deeply anti-militaristic.
When Eagles Dared by Howard Hughes
Call Number: D743.23.H84 2012
ISBN: 9781848856509
When Eagles Dared tells the stories of the historical events of World War II and the films that have depicted these events on cinema screens, presenting a guide to history through cinema that compares the cinematic myth with the historical reality.
World War II on the Big Screen by Doris Milberg
Call Number: D743.23.M55 2010
ISBN: 9780786447404
This illustrated narrative combines a historical perspective of World War II --and the events that followed--with chronological synopses of the films that reflect those turbulent years. Included are such efforts as Casablanca, The Battle of Midway and Der Fuhrer's Face.
Media, Memory, and the First World War by David Williams
Call Number: D522.23.W55 2009
ISBN: 9780773535077
Media, Memory, and the First World War is a comparative study that shows how the dominant mode of communication in a popular culture - from oral traditions to digital media - shapes the structure of memory within that culture.
Remembering the Occupation in French Film by Leah D. Hewitt
Call Number: D743.23.H48 2008
ISBN: 0230601308
This work shows how French film has allowed for a public airing of current concerns through the lens of memory’s recreations of the Occupation.
Britain Can Take It by Anthony Aldgate; Jeffrey Richards; Tony Aldgate
Call Number: D743.23.A43 2007
ISBN: 9781845114459
At the outbreak of the Second World War all cinemas in Britain were closed. Ten days later they were opened again as a valuable way of boosting morale and a principal source of recreation for the nation at war. Feature films were not just escapist entertainment; they provided instruction and information, and over the next six years some 300 feature films and thousands of short films and news reels were produced in what is now seen as British cinema's 'finest hour'.
Homosexuality and Civilization by Louis Crompton
Call Number: HQ76.25.C76 2003
ISBN: 067401197X
Publication Date: 2003-11-15
How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution, as he compares the Christian West with the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, Arab Spain, imperial China, and pre-Meiji Japan.

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E-Books

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Indelible Shadows by Elie Wiesel (Editor, Foreword by); Annette Insdorf
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 0521016304
Indelible Shadows investigates questions raised by films about the Holocaust. How does one make a movie that is both morally just and marketable? Annette Insdorf provides sensitive readings of individual films and analyzes theoretical issues such as the 'truth claims' of the cinematic medium.
Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-Modern World by Alexandra Cuffel (Editor); Brian Britt (Editor); Elizabeth A. Castelli (Editor)
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1403972184
This book compares shifting formulations of gender, interfaith, and ethnic relations in the Near East, Europe, the Americas, and Africa from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Contributors address three areas in pre-modern gender, religious, and cultural encounters: depictions of homosexual and transgendered behaviors, conceptualizations of femininity and masculinity, and the marriageability of ethnic and religious minorities.
The Hollywood War Film by Robert Eberwein
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9781405173919
The Hollywood War Film offers readers a lively introduction to the theory, history, stars, and major films constituting this vital genre, from Hollywood's earliest days to the current moment. Combines broad historical and theoretical coverage of the genre with in-depth analysis of specific films.
Armed Forces by Robert Eberwein
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 0813540801
In war films, the portrayal of deep friendships between men is commonplace. Given the sexually anxious nature of the American imagination, such bonds are often interpreted as carrying a homoerotic subtext. In Armed Forces , Robert Eberwein argues that an expanded conception of masculinity and sexuality is necessary in order to understand more fully the intricacy of these intense and emotional human relationships.
Imag(In)ing the War in Japan by Mark Williams
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9789004182981
This study of a series of artistic representations of the Asia Pacific War experience in a variety of Japanese media is premised on Walter Davis assertion that traumatic events and experiences must be constituted before they can be assimilated, integrated and understood.
Film Front Weimar by Bernadette Kester
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9053565973
This first book-length study shows how Germany tried to reconcile the horrendous experiences of the First World War through the films made in 1919-1933.
Advancing Gender Research from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries by Segal demos Staff
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9781848550261
ume 12 of Advances in Gender Research consists of fourteen original essays contributed by a multi-national and multi-disciplinary group of scholars.