How America Was Conditioned to View War (WWII Cinema)

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This video is the first in a series that plans to explore the trajectory of American World War 2 movies. Each video will explore themes around certain time periods in American cinematic history, and they will search to explore questions that may arise from each period of films. This video explores the 1960s' and a few WWII movies from the time period. We create a foundation of how American media portrays war and themes surrounding the war. We will also look at the history of American propaganda during WWII and the suppression of media that otherwise runs against certain ideas that the United States military and government desired to uphold during the time.
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@bradfordcuthrell2017 3 жыл бұрын

Great topic and comprehensive discussion! I've always thought the changes in narratives across older films, more recent ones, and video games are interesting.

@Ollysint 11 ай бұрын

I really enjoyed your analysis and the exploration of the ideas in this video. I know this video is 2 yrs old at this point, but I wanted you to know that I appreciate the work that went into this. Thank you, and Im looking forward to watching more of your content.

@AnalysisWithAlex 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I'm just glad that this video is finding some people you find it interesting and care after all that time. Thank you for watching it and for the comment. I hope you enjoy what else I have in store for the channel.

@Sypherius Жыл бұрын

Wow this was an amazing video I randomly found on my homepage and I'm so glad I decided to click it. You've done a great job and this definitely deserves more views.

@AnalysisWithAlex Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I am really glad you enjoyed it! I hope you enjoy the other video currently on the channel and what I have coming up.

@Warpzonius 3 жыл бұрын

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@pecny 11 ай бұрын

Spot on. But there is still a comic book sensibility prevalent even in relatively contempo offerings like SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and FURY, even as they seek to illustrate/suggest that WWII was not clear cut and in stark contrast to this so-called grammar school take which is scarifying if it is anyone's true educational experience. Films such as Robert Aldrich's ATTACK! (1956) and John Frankenheimer's THE TRAIN (!964) were famous (or notorious) American productions plumbing the depths of America's "good war" suppositions. Though technically limited, they render SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and FURY as morally and ethically simplistic as SGT. ROCK. There were many American films about World War II in the 1980s. Interesting if your point is that they weren't about troops in combat. Interesting to note the Russians made the mother of all combat war films with COME AND SEE in 1985. I think the dearth of the subject in US films is relative to the conditioning you discuss and also the decade's proximity to the residual repugnance felt by people toward the combat experience in Vietnam, entering homes daily via the news on TV from the mid-60s to the mid-70s. Something to note: the TV series COMBAT! did well in the ratings until 1965 when US involvement in Vietnam upticked. The show tanked in 1966 and was off the air by mid-1967.

@AnalysisWithAlex 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your comments here and on the Saving Private Ryan video! They’re really insightful and well thought out. 1) Be on the lookout for a Fury video in the next couple of weeks on my channel. 2) Been tinkering with doing a series of videos about cultural products (films, TV, music, video games) around the Vietnam War, so you’ve given me some good for thought here.

@user-gm5bv2ez2r 11 ай бұрын

Was Why We Fight propaganda? or the truth? please tell me. One could say Fascism took their countries out of the Great Depression... but I say the evil way. It showed the Soviets as heroic, but not Stalin, but that episode was about the Russian people "candy coated" only if again you bring up Stalin & the Molotov - Von Ribbentrop Pact, but the film was about why we fight Fascism.