The Censored War: American Visual Experience during World War Two

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This powerful book tells the story of how American public opinion about World War II was manipulated both by the wartime images that citizens were allowed to see in pictures, ads, and posters and by the images that were suppressed. His text is amplified by arresting visual essays that include many previously unpublished photographs from the army's censored files.

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Explores how the opinion of Americans was manipulated during World War II by the images they were allowed to see, those they were not, and those that were specifically manufactured for them. Considers photographs censored by the military, recruitment posters, newsreels, and other images. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780300062915
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 2/28/1995
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 199
Sales rank: 545,167
Product dimensions: 8.10 (w) x 8.12 (h) x 0.49 (d)

	Acknowledgments
	List of Abbreviations
	Prologue	1
Ch. 1	Rationing Death	7
	Visual Essay 1: Playing the Death Card	27
Ch. 2	A Cast of Millions	43
	Visual Essay 2: Moving Pictures	67
Ch. 3	War as a Way of Seeing	81
	Visual Essay 3: War as Monologue	105
Ch. 4	War Costs	121
	Visual Essay 4: War Legacies	139
	Epilogue	153
	Notes	159
	Selected Bibliography	177
	Credits	181
	Index	185

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