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Supplementary Video and Documentaries
(This list does not include the Hollywood features, war documentaries, or propaganda films discussed in the book.)
Becoming John Ford (2007), produced by Nick Redman and Jamie Willett, written by Julie Kirgo, directed by Nick Redman.
“John Ford: An American Vision” (episode of Biography, originally aired 1998 on A&E), produced and directed by Kerry Jensen-Iszak, written by Douglas Green and Lucy Chase Williams.
D-Day in Colour (2004), produced by Kim Hogg.
Directed by John Ford (2006 version, originally aired on Turner Classic Movies), produced by Frank Marshall, written and directed by Peter Bogdanovich.
Directed by William Wyler (episode of American Masters, originally aired 1986 on PBS), produced by Catherine Wyler, narration and interviews by A. Scott Berg, directed by Aviva Slesin.
Frank Capra’s American Dream (originally aired 1997 on American Movie Classics), produced by Charles A. Duncombe Jr. and Kenneth Bowser, written and directed by Kenneth Bowser.
John Ford Goes to War (originally aired 2002 on Starz), produced and directed by Tom Thurman, coproduced by Joseph McBride, written by Tom Marksbury.
“John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend” (episode of American Masters, originally aired May 10, 2006, on PBS), written and produced by Kenneth Bowser, directed by Sam Pollard. (Available on the two-disc Warner Video edition of Stagecoach.)
“John Ford, Part 1” (episode of Omnibus, originally aired December 1, 1992, on BBC), produced and directed by Andrew Eaton, written by Lindsay Anderson. (Available on the two-disc Criterion edition of Young Mr. Lincoln.)
John Ford Goes to War (originally aired 2002 on Starz), produced and directed by Tom Thurman, written by Tom Marksbury.
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1989), produced by Joni Levin, written by Frank Martin and Charles Degelman, directed by Frank Martin.
“Meet Henry Fonda” (episode of Parkinson, originally aired 1975 on BBC). (Available on the two-disc Criterion edition of Young Mr. Lincoln.)
Shooting War (1998), produced, written, and directed by Richard Schickel.
“WWII: The Propaganda Battle” (episode of A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers, originally aired 1982), produced and directed by David Grubin, written by Ronald Blumer, Bill Moyers, and Bernard A. Weisberger.
Articles, Papers, and Speeches
Aldgate, Tony. “Mr. Capra Goes to War: Frank Capra, the British Army Film Unit, and Anglo-American Travails in the Production of ‘Tunisian Victory.’” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 11, no. 1 (1991).
Bertelsen, Lance. “San Pietro and the ‘Art’ of War.” Southwest Review, Spring 1989.
Blakefield, William. “A War Within: The Making of Know Your Enemy—Japan.” Sight and Sound, Spring 1983.
Cripps, Thomas, and David Culbert. “The Negro Soldier (1944): Film Propaganda in Black and White.” American Quarterly
, Winter 1979.
Culbert, David. “‘Why We Fight’: Social Engineering for a Democratic Society at War.” In Film and Radio Propaganda in World War II, edited by K. R. M. Short. Beckenham, Kent, UK: Croom Helm Ltd., 1983.
Doherty, Thomas. “Cold Case from the Film Archives: Film Historian Thomas Doherty Does Some Detective Work on a Mystery from the 1930s, When the Hollywood Studios Had to Deal with the Upsurge of Racism in Hitler’s Germany.” History Today, January 2006.
Edgerton, Gary. “Revisiting the Recording of Wars Past: Remembering the Documentary Trilogy of John Huston.” Journal of Popular Film and Television, Spring 1987. Reprinted in Reflections in a Male Eye: John Huston and the American Experience, edited by Gaylyn Studlar and David Esser. Washington, DC, and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.
Kozloff, Sarah. “Wyler’s Wars.” Film History 20, no. 4 (2008).
Ledes, Richard. “Let There Be Light: John Huston’s Film and the Concept of Trauma in the United States After WWII.” Paper delivered at the Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association, November 13, 1998.
Marcus, Daniel. “William Wyler’s World War II Films and the Bombing of Civilian Populations.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 29, no. 1 (2009).
Petri, Bruce Humleker. “A Theory of American Film: The Films and Techniques of George Stevens.” PhD diss., Harvard University, 1974, copyright 1987.
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