- Title
- The War that Dared Not Speak Its Name
- Author/Creator
- Bernard F. Dick
- Publication Details
- The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film, pp.10-40
- Annotation
- Explores Hollywood's mostly inadequate experience in making an honest movie about the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s and in the decades after the war. Notes the favorable reception in Hollywood of The Spanish Earth in 1937 and suggests that the documentary's strength is largely owing to how Hemingway's narrative served rather than competed with director Joris Ivens's images. Proceeds to analyze how the war and mostly Loyalist veterans were portrayed in numerous movies after the war, including an in-depth account of the torturous road to Hollywood's adaptation of For Whom the Bell Tolls and the ultimate depoliticization of the filmed story. "This book is the HARDEST book in the world to make into a Picture," an early potential screenwriter warned. Dick concludes that political differences and white-washing myths about the civil war may forever get in the way of producing a true depiction on the big screen.
- Publisher
- University of Kentucky Press; Lexington
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015211983203691
Book chapter
The War that Dared Not Speak Its Name
The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film, pp.10-40
University of Kentucky Press
2022
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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