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Deutsch, James I. "Coming Home from "The Good War": World War II Veterans as Depicted in American Film and Fiction,," George Washington University, January 1991. Advisor: Marcus Cunliffe/Bernard Mergen (2, 18, 23)
Instead of coming home to celebrity parades and optimistic futures, World War II veterans in American film and fiction were more likely to return with debilitating physical or alienating emotional wounds of war, compounded by equally dismaying problems with their families and/or unappreciative civilians in peacetime society. Based on an analysis of more than 300 movies and novels, this dissertation concludes that these materials are neither accurate nor reliable indicators of the historical periods from which they emerge. the depiction of World War II veterans corresponds less to actual postwar conditions or circumstances than to pre-existing cinematic and literary formulas and conventions.
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