FILM 2401 Chapter Notes -Baby Boomers, Will Kane, The Big Valley
8 May 2012
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Chapter 9; the post war hollywood western film. Wwii began to change the relationship between the heroes of the frontier and the natives with whom they often fought (prior to the war it was difficult to see positive images of natives in western film. During the war it created awkwardness around the issue of history of the treatment of. Early westerns often pitted the natives against the whites in a battle between. An early series of defeats for the us military in the pacific theatre of operations during wwii caused difficulties for film makers. Combat films that build the story around the last last stand scenario" in which heroic representatives of american civilization sacrifices themselves to delay the advance of savage enemy . Most famous: bataan (1943) sought to assuage us anxieties caused by the defeat of. American forces in the philippines after the humiliation of pearl harbor.
