• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Melodrama, Realism, and Race: World War II Newsreels and Propaganda Film
  • Contributor: Higashi, Sumiko
  • imprint: University of Texas Press, 1998
  • Published in: Cinema Journal
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 0009-7101; 1527-2087
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  • Description: <p>Dissolving the line between fiction and nonfiction, World War II newsreels and propaganda films are melodramas that represent history as a Manichaean struggle and constitute realist discourse that reinscribes racial and class hierarchies.</p>