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• ISBN 10:  0190269774
• ISBN 13:  9780190269777
• Author: Gordon

Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller’s War Movies is the first book to focus on the genre that best defined the American director’s career: the war film. It draws on previously unexplored archival materials, such as Fuller’s Federal Bureau of Investigation files and WWII-era 16mm films, to explore the director’s lifelong interest in making challenging, thought-provoking, and often politically dangerous movies about war. After establishing the roots of Fuller’s cinematographic schooling in the trenches during World War II, including careful consideration of his 16mm footage of a Nazi camp at the end of that war, Film is Like a Battleground explores Fuller’s first forays into hot war representation in Hollywood with the pioneering Korean conflict films The Steel Helmet (1951) and Fixed Bayonets (1951). This pair of films introduced Fuller to his first run-ins with the American political machine when they triggered both FBI and Department of Defense investigations into his political sympathies and affiliations. Fuller’s cold war films Pickup on South Street (1953) and, though it veers into hot war territory, Hell and High Water (1954) are Fuller’s responses to the political pressures he had now personally experienced and resented. A chapter on Fuller’s representation of pre-American-invasion Vietnam in China Gate (1957) alongside his unrealized Vietnam war screenplay, The Rifle (ca. late 1960s), illustrates the degree to which Fuller’s representation of war and nation shifted even as he continued to probe war’s impossible contradictions.

Table of contents:

1. Sam Fuller’s First War Movie
Shooting During War
Falkenau
Coming to Grips with the Gruesome Spectacle
2. A Complicated Conflict: The Steel Helmet and Fixed Bayonets!
Korean Conflict, Take Two: Fixed Bayonets!
3. Cold War Stories: Pickup on South Street and Hell and High Water
Pickup on South Street
Hell and High Water
4. More War in Asia: China Gate and The Rifle
From Korea to Vietnam
The Rifle
5. Looking Back at World War II: Verboten!, Dogface, and Merrill’s Marauders
Cinematic Proof in Verboten!
Dogface: The Big Red One on the Small Screen
One Foot in Front of the Other: Merrill’s Marauders and the Exhausting Art of Survival
6. Reimagining the War: The Big Red One
At Long Last
Without Documentary Intentions: Falkenau Revisited
Conclusion: Returning to the Scene of the Crime: Falkenau, the Impossible (1988

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