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"Wartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World War II and the later 1940s. Starting with a powerful reinterpretation of one of the most famous photos of all time, Alfred Eisenstaedt's image of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day, Alexander Nemerov goes on to examine an idiosyncratic collection of mostly obscure or unknown images and movie episodes--from a photo of Jimmy Stewart and Olivia de Havilland lying on a picnic blanket in the Santa Barbara hills to scenes from such films as Twelve O'Clock High and Hold Back the Dawn. Erotically charged and bearing traces of trauma even when they seem far removed from the war, these photos and scenes seem to hold out the promise of a palpable and emotional connection to those years. Through a series of fascinating stories, Nemerov reveals the surprising background of these bits of film and discovers unexpected connections between the war and Hollywood, from an obsession with aviation to Anne Frank's love of the movies. Beautifully written and illustrated, Wartime Kiss vividly evokes a world in which Margaret Bourke-White could follow a heroic assignment photographing a B-17 bombing mission over Tunis with a job in Hollywood documenting the filming of a war movie. Ultimately this is a book about history as a sensuous experience, a work as mysterious, indescribable, and affecting as a novel by W. G. Sebald"--

ART / History / General. --- HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. --- PHOTOGRAPHY / History. --- ART / American / General. --- Nineteen forties. --- Collective memory. --- Art and history. --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Historiography and photography. --- 1940s --- 40s (Twentieth century decade) --- Forties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- History and art --- History --- History in art --- World War, 1939-1945, in motion pictures --- Photography and historiography --- Photography --- Motion pictures and the war. --- Photography. --- Art and history --- Collective memory --- Historiography and photography --- Nineteen forties --- 77.01 --- 791.43.01 --- Amerikaanse film ; 1936-1948 ; Wereldoorlog II --- Fotografie ; theorie ; beschouwing --- Kunsttheorie ; collectief geheugen --- Thema's in de film ; de oorlog --- Motion pictures and the war --- Fotografie ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Filmkunst ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Aircraft. --- Alfred Eisenstaedt. --- Andrew Marvell. --- Anecdote. --- Ann Carter. --- Anne Frank. --- Archibald MacLeish. --- Arsenic and Old Lace (play). --- Bertolt Brecht. --- Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. --- Bomb bay. --- Bomb. --- Bosley Crowther. --- Cary Grant. --- Combat Mission. --- Command Decision (play). --- Confetti. --- Consolidated B-24 Liberator. --- Darryl F. Zanuck. --- Dick Powell. --- Donna Reed. --- Down on His Luck. --- Dr. Strangelove. --- Eddie Muller. --- Eloquence. --- Enola Gay. --- Erskine Caldwell. --- Fan magazine. --- Footage. --- G. (novel). --- Geoffrey de Havilland. --- Getty Images. --- Government Girl. --- Graflex. --- Gregory Peck. --- Henry Fonda. --- Hold Back the Dawn. --- Howard Hawks. --- Howard Hughes. --- I Wanted Wings. --- In the Woods. --- Instant. --- Intercom. --- Jack Warner (actor). --- James Agee. --- Jennifer Jones. --- Joan Fontaine. --- John Hersey. --- John Steinbeck. --- John Swope (photographer). --- Joseph Cornell. --- Lady, Be Good (musical). --- Lightness. --- Linhof. --- Los Angeles Times. --- Margaret Bourke-White. --- Margaret Herrick Library. --- Marx Brothers. --- Max Reinhardt. --- Meal. --- Memphis Belle (aircraft). --- Michelangelo Antonioni. --- Mickey Rooney. --- Mr. --- Nickname. --- North Africa. --- Olivia de Havilland. --- Patchwork. --- Paulette Goddard. --- Phonograph. --- Potion. --- Princess O'Rourke. --- Princeton University Press. --- Priscilla Lane. --- Report from the Aleutians. --- Roland Barthes. --- Rosie the Riveter. --- Seminar. --- Stanley Kubrick. --- Stardom. --- Swoon (artist). --- Sy Bartlett. --- Tamara Toumanova. --- The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series). --- The Circus Animals' Desertion. --- The Curse of the Cat People. --- The Dark Corner. --- The New York Times. --- To His Coy Mistress. --- Toby Jug. --- Tom Conway. --- Toner. --- Top Gun. --- Twelve O'Clock High. --- Veronica Lake. --- William Wyler. --- Wing and a Prayer. --- Wings of the Navy. --- Writing.