Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- 1 Historical Context.- 2 Production History.- 3 Reception.- 4 Aesthetics.- 5 Best Years' Thematic Connotations.- Afterword.- Notes.- Credits.- Select Bibliography.
Named as one of Kansas City Star's top 100 books of 2011: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/12/01/3297721/the-stars-top-100-books-of-2011.html#ixzz1fPZcCN3Q 'Part of my admiration for this intelligent and judicious contribution to the BFI Film Classics - a series that by now may qualify as the most successful and title-heavy book series in the history of film criticism, perhaps in any language - is my conviction, which I share with Kozloff, that William Wyler's 1946, 171-minute masterpiece about returning American soldiers after the end of WW2 is, existentially speaking, a rare and almost unprecedented act of witness and social conscience for a Hollywood feature.' - Jonathan Rosenbaum
SARAH KOZLOFF is Professor in the Department of Film, on the William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair, at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA. She is the author of a number of books, including Overhearing Film Dialogue (2000) and Invisible Storytellers: Voice-Over Narration in American Fiction Film (1988).
Named as one of Kansas City Startop 100 books of 2011
*http://www.kansascity.com/2011/12/01/3297721/the-stars-top-100-books-of-2011.html*
Part of my admiration for this intelligent and judicious
contribution to the BFI Film Classics - a series that by now may
qualify as the most successful and title-heavy book series in the
history of film criticism, perhaps in any language - is my
conviction, which I share with Kozloff, that William Wyler's 1946,
171-minute masterpiece about returning American soldiers after the
end of WW2 is, existentially speaking, a rare and almost
unprecedented act of witness and social conscience for a Hollywood
feature.
*Jonathan Rosenbaum*
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