Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Endowed Professor of Film Studies and a professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and, with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, editor-in-chief of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Timeline: The 1940s

Wheeler Winston Dixon (University of Nebraska, USA)
Introduction: Movies and the 1940s

Matthew Bernstein (Emory University, USA)
1940: Movies and the Reassessment of America

Sarah Kozloff (Vassar College, USA)
1941: Movies on the Edge of War

Steven Jay Schneider (Harvard University and Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, USA)
1942: Movies and the March to War

Catherine L. Preston (University of Kansas, USA)
1943: Movies and National Identity

Nicholas Spencer (University of Nebraska, USA)
1944: Movies and the Renegotiation of Genre

Kristine Butler Karlson (University of Wisconsin-River Falls, USA)
1945: Movies and the March Home

Wheeler Winston Dixon (UNiversity of Nebraska, USA)
1946: Movies and Postwar Recovery

Tony Williams (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA)
1947: Movies and the "Enemy" Within

Joanna Rapf (University of Oklahoma and Dartmouth College, USA)
1948: Movies and the Family

Marcia Landy (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
1949: Movies and the Fate of Genre

Select Academy Awards, 1940-1949

Works Cited and Consulted

Contributors

Index