Letters from Iwo Jima : screenplay / by Iris Yamashita; story by Iris Yamashita & Paul Haggis. by Yamashita, Iris

Letters from Iwo Jima /...

Clint Eastwood's America / Sam B. Girgus. by Girgus, Sam B., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Eastwood's America -- from the self to a world view -- The first twenty years: borderline states of mind -- Unforgiven: the search for redemption -- Mo Cuishle: a new religion in Million Dollar Baby -- Cries from Mystic River: god, transcendence, and a troubled humanity -- Flags of Our Fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima: history lessons on time and the stranger.…”

Film nation : Hollywood looks at U.S. history / Robert Buryoyne. by Burgoyne, Robert, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…: the ethnic construction of nation in Gangs of New York -- Haunting in the war film: Flags of our fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima -- Trauma and history in United 93 and World Trade Center.…”

War on the silver screen : shaping America's perception of history / Glen Jeansonne and David Luhrssen. by Jeansonne, Glen, 1946-, Luhrssen, David

Table of Contents: “…Casablanca (1942) -- Saboteur (1942) and The best years of our lives (1942) -- Twelve o'clock high (1949) -- Patton (1970) -- Schindler's list (1993) -- Flags of our fathers (2006) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) -- The Cold War (1947-1991), including the Korean War (1950-1953) and the Vietnam War (1955-1975). …”
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New essays on Clint Eastwood / edited by Leonard Engel ; foreword by Drucilla Cornell.

Table of Contents: “…Simons -- Lies of our fathers: mythology and artifice in Eastwood's cinema / William Beard -- Eastwood's Flags of our fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima: the silence of heroes and the voice of history / John M. …”

Screen writings. Bert Cardullo. by Cardullo, Bert

Table of Contents: “…Shooting the city: the gangster, Manhattanites, and the movies (on Paul Mazursky's Next stop, Greenwich Village, Martin Scorsese's Taxi driver, John Badham's Saturday night fever, Neil Simon's The goodbye girl, and Woody Allen Manhattan) ; Back to the future, or the vanguard meets the rearguard (on Gus Van Sant's Last days, Jun Ichikawa's Tony Takitani, Kim Ki-duk's 3-iron, Michael Gondry's Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, and Miranda July's Me and you and everyone we know) ; Flags and letters, men and war (on Clint Eastwood's Flags of our fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima) ; Farce, dreams, and desire: Some like it hot re-reviewed -- Interlude. …”
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War and the media : essays on news reporting, propaganda and popular culture / edited by Paul M. Haridakis, Barbara S. Hugenberg and Stanley T. Wearden.

Table of Contents: “…Lee -- Created heroes, humanized soldiers, and superior western values: fantasy theme analysis of Flags of our fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima / Koji Fuse and James E. Mueller -- Ghosts of Vietnam: filmic representations of unconsummated American heroism in the beginning of the twenty-first century / Wesley J. …”

Tenshin / Tenshin Production Committee ; producers, Masaki Hoshika, Takashi Komoto, Yuji Kinoshita ; a Katsuya Matsumura film.

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New essays on Clint Eastwood / edited by Leonard Engel ; foreword by Drucilla Cornell.

Table of Contents: “…Simons -- Lies of our fathers: mythology and artifice in Eastwood's cinema / William Beard -- Eastwood's Flags of our fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima: the silence of heroes and the voice of history / John M. …”
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