The concept underlying this text/workbook is to provide background information about the 1940s so that the study of that decade’s films is not done in a vacuum. In this approach, the influence of the real world upon selected movies can be examined in a larger, societal context.

For each year, the following topics are highlighted:

Spaces are also left for related topics, allowing the instructor to provide additional lecture material and/or to assign research material to students in such areas as: Facts and Figures, News Headlines, Literature and the Arts, Sports, Fads and Fashions, Transportation, Science/Medicine/Technology, Economics and Politics, Daily Life, and Disasters.

One section lists each year’s Academy Award nominees or winners. The appendix includes several analysis forms for students to complete about the films they have seen both inside or out of class.

Although intended as an academic coursebook, this volume is also informative reading for anyone interested in the films of the pivotal era of the 1940s.

Published/copyright © 1997
Paperback (210 pages)
$21.95