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The Fatal Alliance A Century of War on Film [Audiobook]
B09YBC3Z61 M4B@64 kbps Author: David Thomson Narrator: David Thomson Movies had only begun to exist by the beginning of World War I, yet in less than a century, had transformed civilian experience of war-and history itself-for millions around the globe. This reality is the moral conundrum at the heart of Thomson's book. War movies bring both prestige and are so often box office blockbusters but is there something problematic at how much moviegoers enjoy depictions of violence on a grand scale, such as Apocalypse Now, Black Hawk Down, or even Star Wars? And what does this truth say about us, our culture, and our changing sense of warfare and the past?